Hi, Lee Lofaso!
I read your message from 29.07.2018 22:16

  ak>> The Taliban was legitimate government in Afghanistan before
  ak>> the US invasion. All the world knows it.
  LL> The Taliban was de facto government in Afghanistan after the
  LL> collapse of the previous government, which had been supported
  LL> by the former USSR, which also collapsed at the same time.
  LL> I would not go so far as to claim the Taliban was de jure
  LL> government in Afghanistan, since only one or two nations in the
  LL> world recognized it as such.  And even those two countries
  LL> (both Islamic) found the Taliban regime repugnant.

So, those people who defeated the USSR's puppet government formed an 
illegitimate government? ;-)

Bye, Lee!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2018
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