Reply #26: Usamah was not involved until after Carter's crew passed.. [View All]

[Aidoneus]

the Afghan opposition was first indeed backed by the bankrupted brain-trusts in Carter's black-ops brigade, complete with Zbig in a turbanned photo-op, but in that time it was Afghans like Hekmatyar that were first tapped. When he turned out to be a bit more colourful than Jefferson, they favoured more the internationalist approach of Abdullah `Azzam & the young bin Laden and got the rest of the world on board. A whole coalition of the willing, as it were. Brzezinski's baby originally, but those other parts came later.

The Taliban were NOT the force favoured by the Carter-Reagan fundings. They in fact threw out the warlords that were, and helped to bring stability to the fractures that their predecessors had wrought. And, burned the poppy crops, earning a permanent position on the shitlist of the Russian mafia & American CIA--but receiving a thank-you from the Burmese growers for the nudge up to #1.