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I'm not saying they're the same. one is clearly worse. I'm saying it's probably a bad idea to fund and legitimize an extremist religious government like them. in fact, your point about the US being to blame for the taliban is EXACTLY the point. this is the lesson we need to learn from that. we funded and armed them against what we saw as a greater threat and so we looked past the ideologies of those we supported. if we support and legitimize hamas we'll be doing the exact same thing again.
I'm definitely not saying we should support Israel, I'm not saying we shouldn't help Palestine, I'm just saying we need to be careful.
What "we" saw as a greater threat? Middle-eastern nationalism? Exactly how did middle-eastern people not living under the yoke of exploitative white supremacist empires threaten you?
Doesn't look like it to me. Looks to me like the US's "leaders" looked at these far-right fundamentalists and decided they were the perfect tool to kill off Arab nationalism and make the middle-east a safe space for the capitalists to loot and plunder with impunity. After all... the overtly nazi-loving fascism of the regimes the US sicced on Latin America was exactly what the US political establishment liked about them. It didn't exactly turn out in the middle-east as they had planned... but I sure don't see the military-industrial complex complaining about the current situation much.
Why? Because Hamas has made it perfectly clear that they won't be the puppets of the very people that sicced this white supremacist settler-colonial state on the Palestinians? That's a mark in their favor - not one against them.