The USA doesn't have to make such a claim as "the sun never sets on the American Empire", because it's self-evident and obvious to everyone that that is the case. The USA became the world's new greatest empire after the two world wars bankrupted the UK. Their main competitor for the title was the Soviets, and that put in place the Cold War, and Afghanistan has been a victim of that Cold War. For that I blame both the USA and Russia.

My point was that Afghanistan had a reasonably okay government and society before the Russians invaded them...and they've had a very bad situation ever since. Both Russia and the USA have made their situation very bad...and so did the Taliban, needless to say.

Correct, "the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets". Yes. And they did so at the behest of the USA. And they warned the USA that it was a dangerous policy which could lead to future problems for both Pakistan and the USA.

And it has done so.

You anticipate Al Qaeda obtaining some nukes? Perhaps. If a nuke is used on some American target in a terror attack...and then is attributed to Al Qaeda by your propaganda ministry (meaning your controlled and phony national "news" media)...whether or not it really came from Al Qaeda, which it probably won't...I know what it will be used to justify. It will be used to justify a major nuclear attack on Iran. In that attack many innocent people will die. I predict that virtually none of them will be members of Al Qaeda nor will Al Qaeda be hurt one bit by the American attack. They will be greatly helped by it. They will gain many new recruits in response to it.

And another false flag operation will have succeeded in causing another unjustified foreign war. But it will be a far more dangerous war than the ones we've seen in the last 20 years.