If Washington's accusations are true then that would be funny considering it used to be America that trained and armed the Taliban. They did that to prevent Russia conquering the country but then when the invasion it ended completely fucking up the place since the Talibans are tablet-thumpers.

BUT then again, maybe things wouldn't have been better if Russia was just allowed to invade and annex Afghanistan. It could still be fucked up (though we know Russia would have likely not tolerated fundamentalists).

Sigh "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must," still hold true. Afghanistan was just a board where powers played.