Daily reminder that America sided with the fucking radical Islamists who wanted to send the middle east back into the...

Daily reminder that America sided with the fucking radical Islamists who wanted to send the middle east back into the stone age to fuck over the secular, modernist Socialists who were building modernized secular societies across the middle east.

So what? Who cares?

yeah, it's how taliban was born

That's not a true accounting of events at all.
The fundamentalists took over all by themselves.

Do something about it then. We haven't had a nice war with whitey in ages. If we're really so bad the rest of the world needs to start holding us accountable.

>The fundamentalists took over all by themselves.
The origins of al-Qaeda as a network inspiring terrorism around the world and training operatives can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989).[32] The US viewed the conflict in Afghanistan, with the Afghan Marxists and allied Soviet troops on one side and the native Afghan mujahideen, some of whom were radical Islamic militants, on the other, as a blatant case of Soviet expansionism and aggression.

A CIA program called Operation Cyclone channeled funds through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to the Afghan Mujahideen who were fighting the Soviet occupation.[115] US government financial support for the Afghan Islamic militants was substantial.

The Brits, Isreal and Russia may have had something to with it aswell

This is what used to be thought, but Brzezinski confirmed they had long been funding islamist groups to "drag the soviets into their afghanistan"

>Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan , nobody believed them . However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today?

>B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime , a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

>Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?

>B : What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

>Q : “Some agitated Moslems”? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today...

>B: Nonsense! It is said that the West has a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid: There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner, without demagoguery or emotionalism. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is t h ere in com m on among fundamentalist Saudi Arabia , moderate Morocco, militarist Pakistan, pro-Western Egypt, or secularist Central Asia? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries...

>playing the blame game
This is so stupid for leftists to do because it literally paints Muslims as uncontrollable animals. Americans angered the uncontrollable animals and now no one can blame them for attacking people indiscriminately, right?

but that picture is from Iran

Whoop you're right, turned up in the wrong collection.

There are so many countries we've fucked up/with that haven't started carrying out terrorist attacks all over the world. They always bring up the Crusades too, like that's a good fucking reason for what they're doing. They happened so long ago it's almost embarrassing they get mentioned in a modern context at all

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>Americans angered the uncontrollable animals
More like bred them and cared for them

Fundamentalism in the middle east stretches back way farther than 1989.

Just look at the Muslim Brotherhood's history alone stretching back to the 1920s.

>Nothing to see here, buddy. It's all just pure coincidence

t. Bobby Burnside-Washington Jr.

The British and French were the ones that Balkanized the Mid East. Remember WWI?

>Just look at the Muslim Brotherhood's history alone stretching back to the 1920s.

Qtibism for one example

Afghan Mujahedeen!=Arab Mujahedeen
The Afghans became the Taliban and the Northern Alliance forces. The Arabs are were Al Qaeda is from. We paid the Pakis to arm and train the Afghan ones. The Arabs were self financed or financed from the gulf states. The people ruining shit now are offshoots of the Arabs.

t. CIA

If you'd taken even an elementary geography class on the middle east, you'd know that fundamentalists religious factions have always existed.

They were the reason for the end of the Islamic Golden age in the 14th century for fucks sake.

and Americans have the nerve to say "THEY HATE MUH FREEDOM"

And the fact that the religion tends to be prone to violence and when an outside force doesn't exist they just fight amongst themselves based on whose version of said re login is correct.

Do you have a source for this interview?

USA is pure fucking evil.

You also have to keep in mind that Afghanistan was a generally neutral Kingdom until 1973 and was a generally pro-west Republic until 1978. A lot of the pictures people claim are from the Communist period are actually from either of those eras.

Burgerland has been responsible for the downfall of a LOT of Latino American countries and the whole Europe with their "freedom" wars. Glad mexibros are taking that land back.

I'm not one to defend the retarded ass proxy wars our country has participated in. But the US really has really done very little but prod at the already highly volatile region.

The careless borderlines drawn by the Brits after WWI directly CAUSED much more volatility and death than we ever did incidentally.

Except Reagan funded the shit out of the mujahedeen via Pakistan.

Except fundamentalism has existed in the middle east, in great droves, since before the mujaheddin.

For once, OP is right.