Word: propping
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...country ever illustrated the law of unintended consequences as well as Afghanistan. The story began in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded the eternally warring country to prop up a puppet communist regime. Through the prism of the cold war, the U.S. saw a chance to confront its nuclear rival more conventionally on the ground. So the U.S. armed and financed a proxy army. The band of mujahedin, or holy warriors, that the U.S. backed came not just from the fractious, ethnically diverse Afghan tribes but also from cadres of Muslim volunteers--including Osama bin Laden--who saw resistance against...
...country ever illustrated the law of unintended consequences as well as Afghanistan. The story began in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded the eternally warring country to prop up a puppet communist regime. Through the prism of the cold war, the U.S. saw a chance to confront its nuclear rival more conventionally on the ground. So the U.S. armed and financed a proxy army. The band of mujahedin, or holy warriors, that the U.S. backed came not just from the fractious, ethnically diverse Afghan tribes but also from cadres of Muslim volunteers - including Osama bin Laden - who saw resistance against...
...find out, 10 years from now, that CIA agents initiated massive covert operations to prop up U.S.-friendly but highly corrupt governments that massacred their own people, as we now know occurred in Latin America during the 1980s, I will be able to say self-righteously, “You never told me you were going to do that.” And even if our actions eventually destabilize entire regions of the world, foster global anti-Americanism and bomb a country back into the Stone Age, I might (probably not) argue that it was worth it in order...
...region are often unstable governments battling fundamentalist oppositions in their own countries, just as dangerous as the Taliban, and we must be aware of their concerns. Unilateralism died on Sept. 11th, and if we are to have any hope of stopping fundamentalism in the Middle East, we must prop up our allies in the region. In other words, a sophisticated President and Congress should now think of approving tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in debt relief, humanitarian aid and, most importantly, infrastructure and civil society development programs in the Middle East...
...death alone would not serve to remove the anti-Taliban alliance as a military force. If the intention was to rob America of an ally, it would have made more sense to first allow the Taliban time to militarily exploit the assassination before the U.S. and NATO could prop up the alliance. And bin Laden hardly needs to cement an already cozy relationship with the Taliban. Since 1996, he has supplied the Afghan militia with both funds and firepower. Among a Taliban foreign legion of some 10,000 is a powerful and still growing contingent...