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This is a rather wrong view on who exactly the West supported in Afghanistan.

The Mujahideens the West supported became the Northern Alliance. The NA allowed girls to go to school. The NA was also allied with Iran and didn't persecute the Shia population of Afghanistan.

Unfortunately the NA lost the later Afghan civil war to the Saudi/Pakistan backed Taliban.

Also the rise of radical Islam has more to do with Arab countries and Israel than a Central Asian country that is culturally and geopolitically more connected to India than the Middle East.



>Also the rise of radical Islam has more to do with Arab countries and Israel

Not in that area of the world. The Deobandi school is an indigenous South-West Asian school, a radical version of that was wed to a Pakistan going off the rails under Zia and we see the results today. It is a parallel to the Saudi-radical Wahhabi convergence of the time, but still an entirely local development.




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