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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe destruction of Afghanistan started here:
We must always remember that.
moondust
(20,047 posts)1983 President Ronald Reagan meets with mujahedeen leaders, calling them freedom fighters, at the White House.
msongs
(67,596 posts)RockRaven
(15,158 posts)I'm curious if he's still a public figure or not.
unblock
(52,623 posts)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Avrakotos
Died in 2005
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played him in the movie Charlie Wilson's War.
RockRaven
(15,158 posts)I was wondering if he was State Dept, DOD, intelligence, or WH staff...
Xolodno
(6,428 posts)1. This is the Mujahadeen, not the Taliban which is a Sunni Frankenstien created by the Saudi's and Pakistan.
2. Further point one, there is a woman in this and is making a point...and everyone is listening to her.
But overall, yeah, we should have let the Soviets do their shit. Then again, I think those in Moscow were already planning for the eventual, well, eventuality. Think they will get a non-aggressive buffer state like they wanted.
Cha
(298,485 posts)tirebiter
(2,541 posts)The Taliban executed their leader just before Sept 11. They were loosely organized. Since then they lived on their reputations and became old and irrelevant.
MiroJarvis
(55 posts)And several of them are currently members of terrorist groups.
rockfordfile
(8,715 posts)Is there any place that the right-wing hasn't screwed up?