11-22-2011, 07:50 AM
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Liv Benson to You, Bitch
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
You are confusing aid in the form of food/medical aid/training by US and SAS with high tech weapons. They weren't sending them Stingers and advanced weapons until the very end and the Soviets expulsion quickly followed once they were aggressively downing helicopters and fighter planes with stingers.
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You have some kind of birth defect where you can't read or you just fucking with me?
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According to Brzezinski, CIA financial aid to the insurgents within Afghanistan was approved in July 1979, six months before the Soviet invasion, though after the Soviets were already covertly engaged there. Arms were sent after the formal invasion.[83][84]
United States President Jimmy Carter insisted that what he termed "Soviet aggression" could not be viewed as an isolated event of limited geographical importance but had to be contested as a potential threat to US influence in the Persian Gulf region. The US was also worried about the USSR gaining access to the Indian Ocean by coming to an arrangement with Pakistan.
After the Soviet deployment, Pakistan's military ruler General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq started accepting financial aid from the Western powers to aid the mujahideen.[85] In 1981, following the election of US President Ronald Reagan, aid for the mujahideen through Zia's Pakistan significantly increased, mostly due to the efforts of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos.
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