I don't know if its a good idea to be actively cooperating with the Northern Alliance. Obviously we shouldn't hinder them, their enemy is our enemy, but our cooperation lends legitimacy to their claim to rule the country should the Taleban fall from power (which seems likely). First of all the US shouldn't be kingmaker in any country. Especially in an Islamic country with a fundamentalist governemnt. Part of the reason terrorism occurs in this country is because we meddle where we should or at least where we should tread more lightly than we do. Not to mention the Northern Alliance is an ethnic minority in Afghanistan (made up mostly of ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks)and who's to say that they won't be just as crazy as the Taleban? I heard on NPR a few days ago that the deposed king might be a more viable choice but that's for the United Nations or the country itself to decide.
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I don't know if its a good idea to be actively cooperating with the Northern Alliance. Obviously we shouldn't hinder them, their enemy is our enemy, but our cooperation lends legitimacy to their claim to rule the country should the Taleban fall from power (which seems likely). First of all the US shouldn't be kingmaker in any country. Especially in an Islamic country with a fundamentalist governemnt. Part of the reason terrorism occurs in this country is because we meddle where we should or at least where we should tread more lightly than we do. Not to mention the Northern Alliance is an ethnic minority in Afghanistan (made up mostly of ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks)and who's to say that they won't be just as crazy as the Taleban? I heard on NPR a few days ago that the deposed king might be a more viable choice but that's for the United Nations or the country itself to decide.