what does that make this?
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a86operationcycloneAccording to Australian journalist John Pilger, in this year, “CIA Director William Casey
his backing to a plan put forward by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, to recruit people from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. More than 100,000 Islamic militants trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992, in camps overseen by the CIA and MI6, with the SAS training future al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts. Their leaders trained at a CIA camp in Virginia.” Eventually, around 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries will fight with the Afghan mujaheddin. Tens of thousands more will study in the hundreds of new madrassas (Islamic schools) funded by the ISI and CIA in Pakistan. Their main logistical base is in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Ironically, although many are trained, it seems only a small percentage actually take part fight in serious fighting in Afghanistan, so their impact on the war is small. Richard Murphy, assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asian relations during the Reagan administration, will later say, “We did spawn a monster in Afghanistan. Once the Soviets were gone were looking around for other targets, and Osama bin Laden has settled on the United States as the source of all evil. Irony? Irony is all....
We actively recruited and trained militants,
using them to further our own interests.
There was nothing 'noble' about the way we manipulated and used people to achieve our own 'ideology'.
It time for America to do some deep soul searching.
Past time.
We need a 12 step program to help us overcome our addiction to Power, Oil and Domination.
This country we have become, is nothing like the nation the founding fathers envisioned or championed.
We can't run from our own past, or live in denial forever.
But, the truth WILL set us free. Even truth that is ugly and shaming.