> The US has a really bad track record of picking local partners. Mostly because during the Cold War, the "good" local people were more innately socialist, which the Communists exploited, so we got stuck with some pretty horrible people (either ineffective or outright evil) by default.
The US doesn't care that much about the "good" people. They picked the most effective people for fighting the USSR. And out of necessity they needed to use Pakistan's ISI which wanted trained Mujihadeen for their own purposes (asymetric warfare with India) to deliver arms to the "freedom fighters."
The US doesn't care that much about the "good" people. They picked the most effective people for fighting the USSR. And out of necessity they needed to use Pakistan's ISI which wanted trained Mujihadeen for their own purposes (asymetric warfare with India) to deliver arms to the "freedom fighters."