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There has been a concerted effort by some of the neocon types after 9/11 to whitewash the American Military Industrial Complex foreign policy support to jihadis from the 1980s onwards.
They want to somehow link al-Qaeda with the USSR rather than the CIA. They use examples of the USSR supporting the PLO types as "evidence" but the PLO was actually not Islamic in outlook and was founded by Arab commies who were from Christian and Muslim Pali backgrounds.
The USSR and modern Russia and the current Red Chinese are fighting Islamist insurgencies and have been for a long time. The US state Dept of Repubs and Dems (makes no difference) has been hammering Russian and China on human rights abuses against Muslim jihadists and in effect giving the jihadists cover (See neocon efforts supporting Chechens and see Chinese Uighurs).
I never said the US didn’t support jihadis. I said that communists and Islamists both want to rid the world of both America and capitalism. They work together toward those goals.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” When America truly understands the earnestness of our enemies we will realize what a mess we are in. The Shia/Sunni divide has not kept Iran from being the lynchpin of Al Qaeda operations, as was seen in a document found at Bin Laden’s compound, which the US treasury has known about since 2011. Iran and Saudi Arabia worked together to drive up oil prices in preparation for the financial terrorism against the US.