> IMHO, if there is a Northern Alliance-led puppet state in Afghanistan, it
> won't be the US's puppet state. The NA is bankrolled by Russia, which does
> not like the Taliban sending people to fight in Chechnya.
>
> Anyway, there is no coherent NA that could lead a state. These are a bunch
> of loosely allied tribes that only stopped warrinh against one another to
> resist the Taliban, and will fall at each others' throats the instant
Kabul
> falls.
>
> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal
Yep. That's why I've previously stated that I don't have any great hopes for the Northern Alliance. They were also among the fundamentalists we bought weapons for and trained in the 80's, right?
-- Luke