Jay, I am really so disappointed to read you repeating that tired old bullshit. The US did not fund Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
Back in the 1980's, the US funded and gave weapons to Afghanis who were fighting the Soviets. At that time, Al Qaeda did not exist, and the Taliban did not exist.
The mujahideen threw out the Soviets, and we walked away, and then there was chaos for a while, and then the Taliban took over. They were kids living in refugee camps in Pakistan being taught to hate in Pakistani-funded madrassas (religious schools) when we were funding the mujahideen. The Taliban are the creatures of Pakistan secret service.
Many of the mujahideen moved to the US to get away from the Taliban, and are now in the process of moving back.
Al Qaeda was funded by Osama bin Laden, who is a multimillionaire who showed up when the mujahideen were fighting the Soviets, and made a name for himself because he had lots of money to spend on toys. They're Arabs.
The mujahideen were mostly Pashto. Different people completely.
I am not surprised to hear the above coming from 1) someone who can't tell a Pashto from an Arab or 2) someone who believes that everything is really just a big conspiracy run by (pick one: CIA, Trilateral Commission, Illuminati, Jewish Bankers. communist plot, et cet. et cet. ad nauseum.) |
