It is not new for the U.S. to create pandemonium in peaceful nations and ask other nations to deal with the consequences (Front page, “Trump suggests India should fight Islamic State in Afghanistan,” Aug. 22). The U.S. was partly responsible for the creation of the Taliban as it provided support to the mujahideen . Later, it invaded the same country, Afghanistan, which it once claimed to have liberated from Soviet Russia. And now it wants to leave the fate of the country in a muddle by negotiating with the Taliban, the same force it fought for 18 years. There is no gainsaying that it was the unnecessary meddling of the U.S. in West Asia which created the Islamic State.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin,
Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh
