Funding war on terrorism
As Dan Rather is beamed into living rooms nationally, pontificating about the horrors of these bombings, I wonder if he recalls when he was smuggled into Afghanistan to broadcast hyperbolically favorable stories about the same "freedom fighters" who now -- miraculously -- have become "terrorists"? As he sheds a tear about the thousands of lives lost in the U. funding war on terrorism Protection-equipment-against-terrorist-attacks. S. , I wonder if Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter and a major architect of the Afghan 'covert' action, recalls his being photographed infamously with these 'freedom fighters' with an assault weapon in his grubby paws aimed at Kabul? As is well known, the U. S. funding war on terrorism Root-cause-of-terrorism. helped to recruit tens of thousands to flock to Afghanistan, particularly recruits from the Islamic world. Hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into this effort and it is from this seething cauldron of conflict that bin Laden arose, not to mention those who are now destabilzing Algeria and wreaking havoc in an arc of instability that stretches from North Africa to the South Pacific. Sadly, one can count on one hand -- perhaps one finger -- those (particularly among African-Americans) who uttered a word of opposition to the Afghan 'covert' action as it unfolded, though those tax dollars would have been better spent on hunger and homelessness. funding war on terrorism Protection-equipment-against-terrorist-attacks. Most were cowed by the reigning anticommunism which mandated avid support or muteness in the face of anything that was deemed anti-Soviet. Fundamentally, the U. S. helped to stoke right-wing nationalism -- including what is called 'Islamic fundamentalism' and 'Christian militias' -- to undermine not only left-led regimes but even bourgeois democratic governments. Recall the pivotal 1980 election that catapulted Ronald Reagan into the White House. Recall what former Columbia University Professor, Gary Sick, referred to as the "October Surprise," i. e. the newly installed Islamicist regime in Iran supposedly agreed with the GOP aspirant to delay the release of U. S. hostages in their country, so as to undermine the candidacy for re-election of then President Jimmy Carter. Then the hostages were released as Reagan took his oath of office in January 1981, which helped to propel the belief that the Iranians were frightened of retribution from Reagan and this fear prompted this release; this misbelief was expanded to include the notion that militants internationally were now afraid of the big, bad U. S. now that the GOP right had come to office. This stoked even more chauvinism on these shores. Then the Reagan Administration and the militant right-wing clerics in Teheran collaborated to eviscerate jointly the left- wing Tudeh Party opposition in Teheran, not least because they were seen as being close to Moscow. Those who doubt the collaboration between right-wing nationalism and the U. S. should re-examine the now forgotten 'Iran-Contra' scandal, an elaborate scheme that involved the U. S.
Funding war on terrorism
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