The pic you quoted? says nothing about Afghanistan. Yeah, some people may use it to refer to Afghanistan, but it can just as easily apply to Iraq, or further back, Vietnam.
(admittedly, I SHOULD have posted it here rather than the general thread, yes.)
Or other times where the US backed rebels/local governments depending on which was more anti-communist back in the Cold War (the USSR was admittedly at least as bad about that sort of thing) or even more recently.
(admittedly, I SHOULD have posted it here rather than the general thread, yes.)
Or other times where the US backed rebels/local governments depending on which was more anti-communist back in the Cold War (the USSR was admittedly at least as bad about that sort of thing) or even more recently.