You know it didn’t start with Ronald Reagan right?
Support for the islamist rebels began with Zbignew Brazinsky, under Jimmy Carter admin.
Also a Texas Congressman, Charlie Wilson, had a lot to do with funding the muj against the Soviets. Here’s an obit that talks about that:
http://archives.dawn.com/archives/8944
and there’s a book on the subject called Charlie Wilson’s War that would be worthwhile for anyone wanting to get more fully up to speed on the subject. Just reading the summary and comments on the book at Amazon would probably be worthwhile.
People attribute anything hat happens during a President’s Administration to that President, when the reality is much more complicated, especially for anything as big as the US gov’t.