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Originally Posted by Eric5273
Most of the terrorists we are fighting now originally trained in CIA terror training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the mid-1980s. CIA went around the Middle East recruiting Islamic fundamentalists and trained them in terror tactics in order to fight against the "godless" communists, the Soviet Union.
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I remember when we once thought of the muhajadeen as those good 'ole freedom fighters, back when Rummy was swapping satellite imagery with his boy Saddam. My, how things change.
IMO, it's not that the USA sets out to create global ironies, it's more that our sheer size and global reach put us in a lot of traffic. Sometimes we hit the nail on the head, othertimes maybe not.