if you want to go back to Reagan that plan against the Soviets during the cold war was a resounding success.
there was a clear and legitimate fear that the Soviets would expand their empire into either Iran or Afghanistan.
if you bring up Osama then you next have to go to Bush1 and Clinton who should have shot the dog when he turned rogue and chose not to.
Clinton especially who should have done so after the first attack on the world trade towers.
Why do you stop at Clinton?
REAGAN created Osama bin laden, REAGAN funded OSAMA and hosted him here in the USA while they planned, recruited and paid for MUJAHIDEEN fighters from the middle east. Then , Osama was sent in to fight a proxy war with the soviets in afghanistan.
But wait, OSAMA is SAUDI, so why is he fighting in Afghanistan? Why is he in charge? Why was he so valuable to REAGAN?
The USA under REAGAN spent BILLIONS arming Bin Laden and his army of "freedom fighters" or The Mujahideen. After that, those parties involved in this whole scam of training him, protected him in secret for years until they needed him again. He was secretly hidden in Pakistan near a military facility knowing he wouldnt be touched, until, of course, OBAMA went in and got him.
We KNEW Osama was in pakistan the whole time, BUSH , CHENEY and RUMSFELD kept denying he was in pakistan and insisted he was in Afghanistan.
Of course, they had to keep telling us what we wanted to hear, because it just sounded more HOORAH for the wars.
Bin Laden was nothing more than a patsy for those involved in taking down the towers. It isnt that hard to find hijackers who will sacrifice their lives for cash for their families. They have nothing, but they do have religious committment. If they can take care of their families by doing something that will cost them their lives, then its a no brainer.
FOLLOW THE CASH.
Why would the ROYAL Saudi family be connected to the funding of all the hijackers? Oh wait, they are connected to Bin Laden and his family.
Its so easy to want to believe 19 random middle eastern men, conspired to learn how to fly 767's, infiltrated the USA without detection, boarded aircraft, took them over, and without any flying knowledge or understanding of topography, flew airplanes all over the eastern USA and found their targets without any problems whatsoever.
Amazing.
REAGANS plan to defeat the soviets came with large consequences. You call it success, others call it a disaster.
After the Russians were kicked out, the HEROIN epidemic BLEWUP in this country from cheap heroin from afghanistan when output from there grew at 6 times the rate of exportation. Reagan protected the drug trade in afghanistan and not liberty. He installed the TALIBAN who ran the trade successfully and poisoned our country.
Years later, BUSH2 invades afghanistan and once again, the HEROIN epidemic is exploding.
Since we were protecting poppy fields for tribal leaders, HEROIN is making a comeback all over the world. Since our wonderful invasion, CANADA has been overrun with heroin addicted citizens. You see, after our grand spending of trillions of dollars, Heroin is cheaper than ever.
Excerpt:
It’s a similar story across much of the rest of the world. After years of declining use in the 1990s, heroin and other opiates have made a startling resurgence around the globe — thanks in large part to a 37-fold increase in Afghan opium production since 2001, when Canadian soldiers helped the U.S. overthrow the country’s Taliban government. Afghanistan now supplies 92 per cent of the world’s opium.
http://www.canada.com/news/Canada+faces+flood+heroin+addicts/3963602/story.html
The real problem here, is that you YAY MERRICAH types only look at wars thought red white and blue colored glasses, flag waving, hero worshipping and feel good sayings like "we kicked s-ass"
But did we??
We spent trillions, and won nothing. We took ground that we had to surrender back to the taliban because they were kicking our s-asses. We got a lot of good men and women killed for nothing. Innocent civilians died in the mountains of the helmand valley, for nothing.
And now, just like in Reagans victory, HEROIN use is on the rise in the USA as well.
Thank you republicans!
Newfie, if you could only learn to view things objectively rather than just following the naratives given to you, you might be a better person.
TOS.