As I said, would love to know what alternative history book you all read. At no time when I was in Kabul did I see evidence of American destruction on the city.
If you have evidence, verifiable evidence that is, of the Taliban shooting down American jets, please, do post it. I'll be more than happy to research it.
I won't even begin to get into the discussion on slavery and its impacts on Blacks in America. You would be confounded by the facts including which, slavery was a thing long before it was introduced to America.