When did the Mujahadeen wage war on US interests?
Sure they were islamic militants.
The Chinese are also communists, and the North Koreans are communists, and the North Vietnamese were communists who killed many Americans, just as Hamas, Al Qaeda, and the Mujahadeen are islamic militants, but we don't treat them all the same way. Some of them can offer us things that are useful against the worse of them. China can put pressure on N.Korea. In the 80s, The Afgahni Mujahadeen tribe of the islamic militant death-worshhipping cult, was the enemy of our enemy - just like Stalin was the enemy of our enemy during WWII. In these games, timing is everything. This Mujahadeen "insurgent" aid thing was just another deal with a particular devil that that the Murtha/Wilson clan stupidly and disgracefully, and fatally, as we & Wilson have seen, but not traitorously, IMO prolonged. Churchill cut the ties with Stalin post-war with his iron curtain speech, like the Bush I administration tried to turn off the spigot to the Mujahadeen, after the Soviets pulled out of Afg. - according to your article in this paragraph:
"Wilson was surprised that spring to hear that the administration was not putting in a request for more money. There had been meetings in Wilson's office and talks with Judge William Webster, the new director of Central Intelligence, about the coming year's budget, but the Agency was no longer of a single mind. The Bush administration, however, wanted out of this game -- so the CIA's seventh floor had no choice but to reflect the opinion of their masters in the White House. "
Bush should have delivered an "iron curtain" speech about islamic radicalism in general right after the Soviet defeat in Afg. Did he really not know that the congress was end-running around him on the Mujahadeen?
If he had not been so eager to lose the 92 election he could have used his second term to ally US with Russia and the Stans, to keep a heavy heel on the mohamMadmen.
>>>>When did the Mujahadeen wage war on US interests?
- 1979 Mujahadeen took the U.S. Embassy in Tehran with 62 US Hostages
- 1983 Mujahadeen bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut
- 1983 Mujahadeen killed the M.E. CIA Chief
- 1983 Mujahadeen drove a truck of explosives into a US Marine barrack killing 241 of our soldiers
- 1983 Mujahadeen attacked the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
- 1983 Mujahadeen attacked Raytheon employees, an American company
- 1984 Mujahadeen kidnapped our CIA Chief, Bill Buckley
- 1984 thru 1985, airlines and cruiselines were hijacked with American passengers singled out for execution
That shows me that the Mujahadeen were enemies of the States.
I'm still waiting for you show me something that says 'The Bush I Admnistration had said to turn off the spigot'?
But you saying 'Did he really not know that the congress was end-running around him on the Mujahadeen?' tells me he never said that statement or anything remotely resembling it.
Can you tell me why Murtha got caught in AbScam as well as being involved with arming militant Islamists?
I submit Bush did know that the congress was end-running around him on the Mujahadeen. That is what created the need for AbScam.