The government in Afghanistan has not been stable. but it was relatively pro-West for much of the past century. In the mid-1970's, Afghanistan was ruled by a moderate, anti-Soviet monarchy. But that government was overthrown in a military coup in 1978 and then again by Communists. In in the following year the Soviets invaded with 80,000 troops to install a pro-Soviet puppet regime. Then followed a decade of war that the Afghanis call the "War of Liberation". During that time Ronald Reagan, a principled anti-Communist, supplied semi-covert assistance to every anti-Communist group he could find. including the pre-Communist monarchy and various radical Islamic factions.
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