Proxy Wars

[hexagonalcarbon]

Regarding http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26warlogs.html?ref=wikileaks

I’d long suspected that we were in two proxy wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) rather than a conflict with a terrorist organization and Baathists. The way I see it

Comments

[ilexcassine]

I think your analysis is largely correct

[hexagonalcarbon]

I would prefer people didn't say we funded the Taliban, since I don't think the Taliban organization even existed when we were funding various Mujahideen groups. It seems to have formed in 1994. The US Operation Cyclone ended in 1989