US GOVERNMENT TRAINED THE TALIBAN TO FIGHT THE SOVIETS
It's astonishing to see so many people with such short memories these days.
Not that I don't blame the letter writer of a recent letter ("Extremists pose an enormous threat") for forgetting and all.
Most Americans these days don't want to face down the consequences of our own actions during the Cold War: We trained those extremists that we are now fighting today.
Yes, it's true.
While the writer gives such historical examples of how much death and carnage caused by the Taliban and blames an entire peaceful religion on the acts of a few nuts on the international stage, not once did he also explain why things have gotten so bad as they have these days.
These extremists didn't just "pop up" all of a sudden and declare war on the US--as some claim. These extremists that we are fighting today are a direct result of foreign policy decisions carried out by a single US President and the CIA during the 80s.
In order to fight the bad Communists in Afghanistan, Reagan and the CIA covertly funded and trained Osama and his people to hold the Soviets at bay in that country. And it worked.
As a result of the stalemate, the US government ceded Afghanistan over to the Taliban as a reward for their actions--where the latter seeds of 9/11 were sown.
Because of what Reagan and the CIA did, today we are fighting those same extremists we once trained and funded.
Wonder what the American people would think of that--if they knew this truth? Or the boomerang effect that we now have to deal with today as a result of our own government's actions back then?
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
Not that I don't blame the letter writer of a recent letter ("Extremists pose an enormous threat") for forgetting and all.
Most Americans these days don't want to face down the consequences of our own actions during the Cold War: We trained those extremists that we are now fighting today.
Yes, it's true.
While the writer gives such historical examples of how much death and carnage caused by the Taliban and blames an entire peaceful religion on the acts of a few nuts on the international stage, not once did he also explain why things have gotten so bad as they have these days.
These extremists didn't just "pop up" all of a sudden and declare war on the US--as some claim. These extremists that we are fighting today are a direct result of foreign policy decisions carried out by a single US President and the CIA during the 80s.
In order to fight the bad Communists in Afghanistan, Reagan and the CIA covertly funded and trained Osama and his people to hold the Soviets at bay in that country. And it worked.
As a result of the stalemate, the US government ceded Afghanistan over to the Taliban as a reward for their actions--where the latter seeds of 9/11 were sown.
Because of what Reagan and the CIA did, today we are fighting those same extremists we once trained and funded.
Wonder what the American people would think of that--if they knew this truth? Or the boomerang effect that we now have to deal with today as a result of our own government's actions back then?
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
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