Afghan - how many people in the US know who actually trained the Taligan to fight.?

The Taliban and Osama, like Saddam, Khomeini, Musharraf and a 3 dozen brutal dictators in the Philippines and Africa, have been supplied, trained, paid, put in power by the US Government, to fight other "evil" dictators, until they turned.

Its the Kissinger doctrine - meddle and be in constant war fare with somebody. We have to get out of that.

I admire good quality propaganda and yours is. Good stuff is all true, it just leaves out information that would run counter to the propaganda's intent.

We did help the Taliban as part of the Mujaheddin we helped train and equip to fight the Russian army, when they supported the socialist government of Afghanistan. Is that what you mean?

However, the Taliban always knew how to fight. The tribes in Afghanistan are notoriously fierce warriors. I'm not certain, but I believe some of Kipling's stories were about that area. I believe "Gunga Din" and the movie "They Would Be Kings" were set in those mountains.

Well, let's see... the Taliban were Pakistan-educated hardliners who came onto the scene in the early- to mid-90's, and took over the country in, what, 1995 or 1996? They trained themselves. They learned their ideology at their Islamic schools, and trained themselves for their takeover. Many of them trained at Al Qaeda camps after Al Qaeda came in and took up roost, and many of them got combat experience (before the U.S. came in) fighting the Northern Alliance, as regional fighters under various warlords, and some as mujahideen against the Russians in the 1980's.

EDIT: Osama bin Laden is not the leader of the Taliban, nor ever was. The Taliban were a separate movement that was friendly to Al Qaeda, and to bin Laden and his entourage when they entered the country, fleeing from Sudan. The Taliban did not exist for "decades" before this war began or even the last one--are people really that ignorant of who the Taliban are and where they came from?

The people who originally financed the Taliban were the Pakistani government.

However I am not at all surprised by all of the ignorant people who claim that the US trained them. Some people need to learn to at least read the wikipedia articles before posting.

Let me make this simple for you.

It's like two friends. One friend helps the other out. Maybe loans them some money. Gets them out of a jam, etc....Then the two at some point have a falling out. Happens all the time.

Well, if this happens to two individuals it would be naive to think that two governments over the course of several decades with new and different leaders would stay united in everything..

Throughout history alliances have been made and broken. Please don't buy into the propaganda that has been spewed about the situation. To do so only makes you look ignorant and perpetuates the "blame America first" mentality that is harming our country.

My thoughts on this range from Mohamed Rahim current address, Guantanamo to US of A technical schools. Every country that the Taliban now fights has supported training for them at one time or another.

A lot of us in the UK do. It's an organisation called the CIA Like the Brits in Malaya during WW ll they forgot that terrorist (guerrilla) armies often have their own agenda which does not include any benefit to their benefactors

CIA agents supported them. Not sure to what extent, but I doubt they were personally working with Osama bin Laden. This was during the Cold War, which was not fought conventionally because both sides were heavily armed and it was feared that escalation would lead to a nuclear showdown. Russia and the US often took pot shots at each other, this is just one example. We supported nearly every satellite territory of Russia in maintaining their independence.

Pakistan, an a very small number were trained by an x army special forces member

Pakistan

you might need to follow your own advise do some research, don't rely on the propaganda that you feed off of to be your sole source of info in your life. i know you want you are looking for a answer to further your agenda and i won't give you what you want.