2007-02-15 11:23:58 · 18 answers · asked by sean jackson 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Don't know, but John Rambo was.
2007-02-15 11:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by John in AZ 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
confident. in the process the 1880s, the Reagan administration presented investment and preparation to Mujaheddin rebels in Afghanistan, one among which grew to become into Osama Bin weighted down. They did this interior the hopes of struggling with off the Soviets, which they did, yet on the fee of dooming Afghanistan to rule via the Taliban which supported Osama.
2016-10-02 05:17:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was created, trained, armed and paid by the Reagan admin in the '80s to fight the Russians.
What the idiot Repubs didn't get was that the mujahadeen weren't fighting communism, they were fighting whoever came into their country.
He is still on the US payroll.
2007-02-15 11:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not completely, although we helped train his army to fight against the former U.S.S.R. Good ol' Ronny Reagan said this about him and the Taliban in '85: “Throughout the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are on the defensive — on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They're doing so on almost every continent populated by man — in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America ... [They are] freedom fighters.” We were the ones who set up dictatorships in Afghanistan and much of the Middle East (to fight 'communism', ironically). We put Saddam Hussein into power during the Iran/Iraq War.
2007-02-15 11:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes its ironical that they also trained the Taliban to fight Americas old enemy the Russia to liberate Afghanistan..They also helped arm Iraq to fight the Ayatollah of Iran.
2007-02-15 13:01:45 · answer #5 · answered by molly 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-15 11:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by mefeelsgreat5 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. To fight the Soviet Union. Oops!
2007-02-15 11:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-02-15 11:25:59 · answer #8 · answered by plhudson01 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, he was in my graduating class of 1982 from "the San Francisco Academy of Vest Bombs and Journalism".
(Oh yes, and death to America!)
How dumb can you be?
2007-02-15 11:30:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, he was, as was his minions under him. Must be why the GOP can't catch him!!
2007-02-15 11:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by hera 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋