IHP
6th November 2002, 09:48
I was just shocked to learn in the book im reading (Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire) that the U$A was training the Mujahideen prior to the Soviet invasion.
heres an exerpt:
At the very moment in 1979, the United states was also delibertately provoking the former Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. In from the shadows: the ultimate Insiders story of Fiver presidents and how the won the cold war the 1996 memoirs of former CIA director Robert Gates, he writes that intelligence services actually began to aid the Mujahideen not after the Soviet invasion of that country, but six months before it
There you go. as we know, the invasion began at te end of '79, the CIA was training them in July of that year.
Well, im not sure if this was meant in history, but i thought it was a very interesting insight into a little known war, and how the big American hand always seems to play a hand. But it appears the loss of 1.8 million lives was necessary for the U$ to become the sole superpower. Sickening.
--IHP
heres an exerpt:
At the very moment in 1979, the United states was also delibertately provoking the former Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. In from the shadows: the ultimate Insiders story of Fiver presidents and how the won the cold war the 1996 memoirs of former CIA director Robert Gates, he writes that intelligence services actually began to aid the Mujahideen not after the Soviet invasion of that country, but six months before it
There you go. as we know, the invasion began at te end of '79, the CIA was training them in July of that year.
Well, im not sure if this was meant in history, but i thought it was a very interesting insight into a little known war, and how the big American hand always seems to play a hand. But it appears the loss of 1.8 million lives was necessary for the U$ to become the sole superpower. Sickening.
--IHP