[Peach]

Perhaps this author from the UK would find it instructive to remember that after WWII, we rebuilt Europe and our troops stayed to protect them from Stalin!

We had joined with Stalin in that great war, as we needed his military's help to fight the Nazi's in Europe.

One finds allies where one must at the time, only to often fight them on another day.

For a UK author to forget that is to show a nearly tragic lack of knowledge.

[konijn]

Didnt these "allies" bomb the WTC for the first time in 1993?
Perhaps you should't forget that yesterday was 9/11.

[Seselj]

No one is blaming the US for aligning with the mujahids against the USSR during the 80's. We did what we thought we had to do there, there was no way we could possibly have known about the Taliban. But that's besides the point. The point of the article is that there was no reason to ally with the mujahids in Bosnia in 1992-95.