re: #756 drcordell

I got it chief. I’m not going to keep explaining this when you don’t pay attention to what I am saying. The radical Islamists that we funded shared bin laden’s world view that global islamic jihad was necessary. So although we didnt DIRECTLY give bin laden money, we gave people who he would later associate both funding and training in bombing/guerilla warfare. Training that has since been passed on to generations of terrorists that we have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When we decided that allying ourselves with self-proclaimed Islamic Fundamentalists whose stated goal was global jihad, we fucked up. We simply thought that it wouldn’t ever blow up in our face because at the time they were directing their anger at the Soviets. It was short-sighted and it fucked us pretty hard in the long run.

That is a more nuanced description of the interaction between the players than you started with. So what you are saying is instead of supporting the only people available to fight the Russians, we should have let them have Afghanistan? In case you forgot, the USSR had similar goals of world domination and the nuclear weapons to back it up. Was there some other army that was going to fight them in Afghanistan?