11-22-2011, 07:32 PM
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Liv Benson to You, Bitch
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Maryland and WV
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I just figured out one of your problems. You don't seem to realize Pakistan and Afghanistan are two different countries.
Selling weapons to Pakistan, including fighter planes (concessions for other CIA assistance, access to bases, borders etc), bribing them with financial AID which was well know to go unaccounted for and giving them money/medicine to deal with the massive refugee camps that spilled over their boarders etc etc etc is not the same as arming and training the Afghan Mujaheddin to confront the Soviet army.
Again, the only real direct substantial aid to Afghan Mujaheddin fighters (which happened progressively over a period of almost a decade) that gave them any sort of edge and only substantial aid enough to change things came very late in the war and in the very end, it was the decision to send Western Stingers that ended the war because by that time the Soviet Union was too weak, too broke and too broken to do anything about it.
But keep going. So far you're learning both history and geography it seems as well as how to use Wikipedia... big day for you!
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Ok, will play with you one more time, single cell amoeba .
Operation Cyclone
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On July 3, 1979, U.S. President Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan.[3] Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December Operation Storm-333 and installation of a more pro-Soviet president, Babrak Karmal, Carter announced, "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is the greatest threat to peace since the Second World War".[22]
To execute this policy, President Reagan deployed CIA Special Activities Division paramilitary officers to train and equip the Mujihadeen forces against the Red Army. Although the CIA and Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson have received the most attention for their roles, the key architect of the strategy was Michael G. Vickers, a young CIA paramilitary officer working for Gust Avrakotos, the CIA's regional head.[23][24] Reagan's Covert Action program assisted in ending the Soviet's occupation in Afghanistan.[25][26] A Pentagon senior official, Michael Pillsbury, successfully advocated providing Stinger missiles to the Afghan resistance, according to recent books and academic articles.[27]
The program relied heavily on using the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as an intermediary for funds distribution, passing of weapons, military training and financial support to Afghan resistance groups.[28] A
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Gust Avrakotos, the CIA's regional head - what a delusional fool. None of this ever happened. And he is so confused - Pakistan is not part of Afghanistan. All them idiot ! |
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