Al Qaeda is an organization that had bases in and operated out of a sovereign nation called Afghanistan. Many of the people who compose the group Al Qaeda lived in this nation when the Soviets were there.
So, Dereks point is entirely valid.
Sure, we backed the mujahadeen but only as a means of sticking it to the Soviets
Our motive has no bearing on Derek's statement. More than a few of those guys who fought the Soviets are fighting us now. That doesn't mean that we're wrong for sticking it to the Reds, but it does mean that the Muj are ingrates because, (say it with me)
"If it weren't for the U.S., Afghanistan and many of the people that make up Al-Qaeda would be licking Soviet boot."
The same way Solidarity came under the control of the USSR. If we hadn't taken on the Soviet Union they would have been more than willing to use their surrogates in Yemen and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa to takeover Saudi Arabia. They also would have succeeded in their drive to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan and Iran
Others have tried to explain it to you. It won't do any good for me to repeat what they have already articulated. Bo made a legitimate point which you didn't grasp.