Posted on 09/07/2013 10:13:51 PM PDT by jeltz25
With all the recent talk about the rebels in Syria being affiliated with AQ, I got to thinking about the "rebels" against the Russians back in the 80s.
Now, AQ didn't exist back then, but they were clearly the forerunners of AQ and many of them grew into AQ and other terrorist movements. If you look back many of the folks the CIA backed back then(working hand in hand with the Wahabbis in Saudi and the ISI in Pakistan) were not exactly the salt of the earth.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but just wondering how folks feel about that now. You could argue that beating the USSR was the bigger issue(although you could also say Iran is the bigger issue here).
The situations seem pretty similar to me in many respects.
“Your statement infers that the US supported them because they were jihadist Sunnis. And that is not true.”
Well, there is never only one reason. The fact still is that the US, when it comes to sunni jihadists versus non-sunnis, has supported sunni jihadists since the 50s.
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