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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (106162)	1/7/2010 10:11:02 AM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 116555

Some twisted souls thought this would be a good investment of taxpayer money in order to cause problems for the Soviet Union. It certainly worked. The USSR collapsed as a system within years of pulling out of Afghanistan. But YOU NEED TO REMEMBER.. Pakistan ran the show. Our money, weapons, and training (actually the Pakistanis who trained the Afghans) merely bought us a voice in how the insurgency was carried out. The Pakis were unwilling to risk giving the Russians an excuse to attack Pakistan, so they didn't really permit the US intelligence and/or military to conduct operations within either their country or Afghanistan. And in fact, Americans were PROHIBITED by the Pakistani ISI from having direct contact with Mujahidin groups within Afghanistan. We gave them money, they did the actual training of the Mujahidin. So all this propaganda about the CIA having trained Bin Ladin or that we're responsible for the Mujahidin coming to power is BS. IF Bin Ladin had had a direct connection to the CIA, or Mossad, he'd have NEVER been able to "hook up" with Ayman Zawahiri to form Al Qaida. There would never have been any trust. As has been mentioned previously, I believe, you don't buy allies in Afghanistan (or Pakistan).. You rent them. They have their own agenda and so long as your interests align with theirs, they'll "do business" with you. And the war in Afghanistan is really an extension of the brewing civil war within Pakistan. It's revealing an even greater divergence of interests between Pakistani intelligence and their conventional military. But it's also revealing the corruption that has become rampant there. Look at how much it cost the taxpayers to clean up after their training and support the CIA provided Manuel Noriega. Now it's even more costly to clean up after our US trained jihadi army. Can you quantify that level of support? I mean, George Bush Sr. giving him a tour of the CIA building while he was CIA director is not exactly "support", nor can it be said that $100K a year as an "asset" signifies much in the way of his importance. He was useful, but he was also harmful: www-personal.umich.edu People in the US would do well to learn how to mind their own business. So we shouldn't try and influence events and thereby permit our rivals/enemies to do so instead? The reality is that these petty dictators are for sale to the highest bidder. Either we pay them or our rivals will. Hawk

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