02-18-2013, 07:25 PM
Needs new thread. Various insurgencies have been sponsored by Pakistan and Iran in competition for Afghanistan's precious terrain for decades, even during Soviet occupation. You have drug warlords, Shia surrogates for Iran, Sunni surrogates for Pakistan, Turkic tribes in the north, smugglers, mercenaries, and every which way but Sunday flavor of jihadis running about in Afghanistan.
