Rigby5
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We never funded the Taliban. You should read Charlie Wilson's War. It explains everything. We funded the forces under Shah Mamoud, not the Taliban.
You may be right since I may not know all the details, but I doubt it since the CIA was notorious for funding the more radical fundamentalists for some reason, and certainly there was a time when those who became later known as the Taliban in 1996, were not known by that name yet.
I doubt we funded Ahamad Shah Massoud much because we was Tajik and could never have much of a power sharing role in any Afghan government.
And since he was killed in 2001, he can't play any role after that.