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To: RWR8189

Brezinski, was he the architect of the first Afghan jihad with Jimmy Carter?

Still fighting the Cold War...


9 posted on 12/04/2005 5:03:17 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Actually, he was the architect of Jimmy Carter's incompetent response. The US boycotted the Moscow Olympics, while the Soviets used airstrikes and armor thrusts to destroy all opposition. The Soviets managed to drive the Muhadeem out. Those who were still ready to resist were refugees in Pakistan. Some of those took solace in ever more extreme variants of Islam. Osama Bin Laden was one of those.

Then Ronaldo Magnus provided some special forces training and Stinger missiles. A courageous decision, because if a lost Stinger took down a US commercial aircraft......

The Soviets were driven out. Without air support, the mujadeen could hold the high ground. From the high ground they could dominate the routes from Kabul. After 40,000 casualties, the Soviets withdrew.

That success, helping Afghans drive out the Soviets earned the US the emnity of Bin Laden. Bin Laden sought to use suicide bombers and terror attacks to drive out the Soviets, and was shown to be unsuccessful. The embarassment of losing that competion drove him further over the edge.

Pakistan's intelligence service invented the Taliban to prevent friendly relations between Afghanistan and India. The Taliban invited Bin Laden, in part for the large bribes that they expected from him.

The folks who took back Kabul from the Soviets: The Northern Alliance, who once again allied with the US to drive out a foreign backed invader.

Plusque ca change, plusque le meme chose.


28 posted on 12/04/2005 7:26:45 PM PST by Donald Meaker (You don't drive a car looking through the rear view mirror, but you do practice politics that way.)
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