prosthetic knowledge
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tumblklaat replied to your photo: Interview with Jimmy Carter from The Guardian…this is revisionist BS. we armed the muhujadeen (who later became al qaeda) under carter, and had them fight proxy wars against the soviets for us. google: operation cyclone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op…
I know I shouldn’t discuss politics or religion on a public blog - I admit I am no expert in this at all, and yeah, it says clearly:
On July 3, 1979, U.S. President Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan.[3] Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December Operation Storm-333 and installation of a more pro-Soviet president, Babrak Karmal, Carter announced, “The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is the greatest threat to peace since the Second World War”.[22]
As far as I know, the mistake wasn’t supplying the Afghans weapons, it was creating schools afterwards (which was what Charlie Wilson proposed, the cost of which would have been $1 Million compared to what they DID spend). Reaganomics screwed that up, but I have no idea why Afghans turned.
Any enlightenment would be appreciated
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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation (The Guardian UK) • Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops
• Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’
• Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on NatoA huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.
The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history. The files, which were made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and over 1,000 US troops.
Their publication comes amid mounting concern that Barack Obama’s “surge” strategy is failing and as coalition troops hunt for two US navy sailors captured by the Taliban south of Kabul on Friday.
