But still "damn glad" the US gave Osama bin Ladin a helping hand...go figure.
“But still ‘damn glad’ the US gave Osama bin Ladin a helping hand...go figure.”
Nice try.
The US, Saudia Arabia, and China funded the mujahadin fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. The CIA arranged for arms to be shipped to the mujahadin. The funding was not made directly to the mujahadin, but was paid through the Pakistani government. Osama bin Laden was one of the many mujahadin. However, he did not create militant Al-Queda until after the Soviets had withdrawn from Afghanistan in 1989. It was created to take on future “holy wars.” We never funded or armed Al-Queda specifically.
You are fixated on one man. It’s kind of like saying that the US funded and armed the USSR in its war against Germany, and so the US is responsible for some Soviet general summarily executing German POWs, or for Soviet troops brutalizing and slaughtering German civilians. It makes a tantalizing sound bite, but it is far from accurate.