helping the taliban take over afghanistan from the bad communists.
Afghan MujahideenThe best-known and most feared mujahedeen were the various loosely-aligned opposition groups that fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan during the 1980s and then fought against each other in the following civil war.The mujahedeen were provided some support before the Soviet invasion according to Zbigniew Brzezinski in order to '.. have the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its Vietnam'[1]. After the Soviet invasion these mujahedeen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States (under the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and China.[2] Reagan referred to these mujahedeen as "freedom fighters ... defending principles of independence and freedom that form the basis of global security and stability." [3] In Western popular culture, the mujahedeen were portrayed favourably in the popular actions films The Living Daylights and Rambo III which was not too different from how the American media portrayed the Soviet Red Army back in WWII.Following the Soviet retreat, many of the larger Mujahedeen groups began to fight each other. After several years of this fighting, a village mullah organized religious students into an armed movement, with the backing of Pakistan, who was being funded by the United States, which found the existing government to be too Russia-influenced. This movement became known as the Taliban, meaning "students", and referring to the Saudi-backed religious schools which produced Islamic fundamentalism along the pacific coast of Asia. With each success the Taliban had, their popularity and numbers grew.
loland here I was thinking you were a fan!I loved those movies. You bastards!
