It’s hard to imagine now, after everything that’s happened in the brutal decades since, but there was a time when we were fairly cozy with the Taliban. This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world’s most oppressive Muslim regime. Government officials who had misgivings about human rights abuses in Afghanistan largely kept their reservations to themselves. It was America’s privilege to supply these men with money and with weapons, and the Reagan administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars doing just that. In the aftermath of that bloody uprising, it was discovered that one of the few surviving prisoners was an American: Mr. Lindh.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 00:08 UTC