Posted on 07/02/2015 8:53:47 PM PDT by Perseverando
Monica’s War
Actually, it was less Reagan who armed them than Charlie Wilson and the Saudis. And in the context of a global struggle against a brutally totalitarian state with global ambitions heavily armed with thermonuclear weapons, one can understand using whatever allies were at hand at the time. Forgetting/ignoring/being ignorant of the context of the Cold War must not be allowed or allowable.
Actually, Hekmatyar didn't "turn", he was always anti-American and anti-Western. There were videos at the time of him addressing his troops wherein he told them that "we will use the Americans' weapons against our enemies here, then will will use them against the Americans themselves". He was merely practicing Taqiyah (the Islamic holy sanctioned practice of lying to infidels) when he claimed to be our ally.
That's news to me. Clinton did send an assessment team to determine how the U.S. could develop a train and equip program for the Bosnian Federation (Bosnian Croats and Bosnian muslims). The Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff refused to send soldiers given the plans to enforce the Dayton Accords. A team of retired army officers were sent instead. I was one of that team.
The plan was forced on Clinton by Senator Bob Dole who believed that the best chance for peace in the Balkans was to ensure military parity between the Serbs and the Croat/Bosniac federation. When I visited the 7th Muslim Brigade in Zenica in November 1994, the White House was very interested what they were doing as no one had seen them or talked to. The article is a pretty accurate of that group. The training program that was executed by contractors. The Army mission in Bosnia was enforcement of the Dayton Accords and did not begin until after the war ended.
My takeaway of my time in Bosnia was that it very hard to find any good guys on any of the sides.
At that time taking down the USSR was more important. The ball was dropped in future administrations when we didn’t respond to Islamic terrorist strikes forcefully.
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AND a true patriot!
(One of my very best friends from the army stayed in and finally joined you, in his words "helping the KLA"; Ms. Norton still keeps him on the Christmas card list thinking I'll change my mind...no luck so far.)
I hope that you find happiness in your profound ignorance, stay that way.
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The Serbs stomped the death out of that scum. Every step of the way the crushed them the dust, and they were right to do so.
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