My father fought in Afganistan, I have Afghani friends (there's refugee resettlement in Cleveland), I currently do legal work for refugees as well as tenants, info from investigative journalists, specifically local ones, etc.
We backed the force against the Soviets, right? When that force fractured (and the Afghani Maoists effectively dissolved), a portion of them became the Taliban, right? Operation Cyclone was the program that funnel money and arms to what became the Taliban in the later years.
Right, they got money and resources but they formed themselves.
You’ve a great heart to work with the refugees. I hope they’re able to find acceptance from the surrounding communities. It’s been 10 years and 5 months since I left that place. We were in Khost, east of the Khost-gardez pass, with our brigade spread amongst paktya, paktika, ghazni, logar, parts of Helmand, and parts of khandahar.
Much of our leadership participated in op anaconda, and many other early operations (2002-2005). I’ve had friends in other major battles in the worst places. I was in Khost from 2010 to 2011.
Almost anyone of us who stepped foot outside their outposts and fobs can tell you the opposite about effort put into training and fighting along side them. I’ve seen them work independently and we’d have to slow them down at time because they’d get overzealous. The were always willing to help, they’ve even saved us at times. There were points where the haqqani stopped attacking us and focused on our Afghan outposts, thinking they’d have an easier time… They were wrong as fukk. What we’re seeing now is a result of back door deals.
