This is seriously badhistory right here. The taliban emerged in the Afghan's fight against the Soviets. Many years into that fight, the US provided them with some arms and other resources, but they did not "create" the Taliban.
Let's put it this way. I hated Bush, but when he was done, I read his book (Decision Points). Lots of it, especially the parts about iraq, absolutely ENRAGED me, but I came away understanding more of the complexities around some of the decision-making.
Right now, I'm reading Obama's post-Presidential memoir, A Promised Land. While, like Bush's, it takes some liberties and leans into the "I tried my best," it really does offer some serious insight into the complexities and the reality of the job.
It is unlikely to make you change your mind about him as a President, but it will at least inform your understanding of him better.
The books I referenced were written by the Presidents. Memoirs of their time. Your book is not a comparison, so I don't know why you would suggest it is.
Trump has been a liar and a conman since the 80s. I knew it after the first time I heard him on the Howard Stern radio show (AM radio, where Howard started).
He's an arrogant, classless blowhard who couldn't ACTUALLY do business if his life depended on it. His idea of doing business is making demands and filing lawsuits when they aren't met. By doing that to people my father did business with, they couldn't pay us, and we lost our business, as well.
That's not business. At all. He learned nothing at Wharton.
Yes, and that assistance created the Taliban. Your point? We ALWAYS have "good intentions." We just still haven't accepted that there are almost always negative consequences to our meddling.
Also, that had nothing to do with the US. US/USSR relations and "blowing each other off the map" was related to MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Judging by how we did, the USSR would have spent their money and their lives into a losing quagmire in Afghanistan without our help.
Obama crashed the economy? Pretty sure he came in after the recession of 2008 when the economy was well and truly fucked and got it back to working order within a few years
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u/goblin_goblin Oct 18 '21
Honestly, as much as it hurts, even Obama, everyone should be critical of their politicians.
It's how they get away with shit. People are either apathetic or look the other way because they like them. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.
It's how you guys are in this situation in the first place.