When the Soviet-backed regime gave way in the early 1990s, eventually, of course, leading to the rise of the Taliban, many of whom were former US-backed mujahedin, that eventually, of course, led to the US invasion and occupation, under which another 47,000-odd Afghan civilians lost their lives, as many as 69,000 police and military in the Afghan services, and something like 90,000 opposition fighter lives during the course of the last 20 years.