Oh I do check them out. I was once a brown shirt neo-con until I woke up.
What you have written shows you to still be asleep.
If you do check out your facts, then why are you spinning this?
Carter's directive in July of 1979 allowed for money to support the Mujahadin...$30 million in the first 6 months in fact. No, we did not directly give them weapons, but they had funding.
The funding was for propaganda as per Carter's drective, and if you know what was going on in Afghanistan you would understand that intill 12/25/79 that they had far more weapons than the soviets did [in afghanistan and truly for a while after] so a need for weapons didn't exist.
When we did become actively involved in supplies of weapons it was via Pakistan and their ISI.
I think that most that post here know that, and that this happened after the soviets invaded.
We also began training them prior to the invasion.
We did? Where do you get this from? Do you have proof of this? The only training that I know of any proof of was for the stingers, do you have proof of this?
Without reading Johnson's book, I suppose you and I will view this differently.
Yes maybe we will as the only spin I spend time on would be my own, as in the GW thread in my last post to email, at the end I said do you think that mars has a volcano? To see if he would pick up on it as he had shown he may of know something of the planets so I was hoping he would get it. I always hope people understand in my quest for intelligence and I am always disappointed.
I suppose if you want to call propaganda "military assistance"
Dave it was Brzezinski who spun popaganda into military assistance although the truth is that propaganda could be said to and is a form of military assistance. Anyone thinking that help was needed to cause problems in afafghanistan doesn't know beans about its history, and Amin bumping off Taraki who was a soviet puppet then making overtures to china, n. korea and the US was more than enough.
it's OK but the way I see it this can run the gamut from just giving them funds to maintain an insurrection to military training all the way to provisioning them with weapons. I suppose that when he handed the Mujahadin the cash and said "Only spend this on propaganda material!"
So you have some proof that cash was handed to the mujahadin? Who handed this cash over and and to what mujahadin? There were a lot of factions mujahadin, I wander if you know just how many there were?
Brzezinski's spin was selfserving and your quote just was spinning his spin, because as for as I know he only said that military assistance was given and that is just a bit of spin that has been respun by others and as I have said it wouldn't have been helpfull nor needed.
As for Gates his long time friend Goodman who worked with him for many years testified that he lacked vision, integrity and courage. Also his role in Iran-Contra and his spinnin that the Soviets had a role in the papal plot and spinning of almost everything he had an assessment of. I just wander why you would even bring him up?
