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The US has consistently destabilised countries that made strides in being more secular and that could push back against the Taliban, for its own political gain (like Syria and Libya). They've given money to militant religiously-motivated rebels that even they admitted weren't "ideologically pure in the way US would've wanted". One of their biggest allies is Saudi Arabia. Helping women has never been their goal, it was an accidental side-effect.