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Once again... the support in terms of direct support to the Mujaheddin started slow and slowly increased over years. It wasn't immediate. It wasn't immediately substantial weapons stocks. They were just a scattered, untrained, unorganized force.
Further, the initial help to them was simply a tactic to prolong the Soviets involvement there and to make them suffer morally, politically and economically. None of the assistance in the first 3/4 of the war was intended to give them a significant edge.. it was designed to give them just enough to resist and cost the Soviets lives and money.
You are trying to make it sound like the west showed up on Day 2 of the invasion and caused the Afghan resistance to win. Nothing is further from the truth.
Thanks for playing.
Keep digging, Keep learning. Hope wikipedia doesn't ban your IP for so many hits and searches per minute trying to construct any kind of argument.
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I find wikipedia far more reliable than your bullshit, kid. The support of Afghans started ahead of Soviet invasion, because U already knew it was about to happen. You have no argument, retard.
It says right there, 3.2 billion in first 6 years and 4.2 bilion in second 6 years. War ended in '89, so its not even half of 4.2. billion spent between 87 and 89. They actually spent more in first years of war than in last 3. Jesus kid, you are the dumbest fuck on this forum.
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The U.S. offered two packages of economic assistance and military sales to support Pakistan's role in the war against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The first six-year assistance package (1981?87) amounted to US$3.2 billion, equally divided between economic assistance and military sales. The U.S. also sold 40 F-16 aircraft to Pakistan during 1983?87 at a cost of $1.2 billion outside the assistance package. The second six-year assistance package (1987?93) amounted to $4.2 billion.
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Here's a another clueless a former CIA director and former president Carter's National Security Adviser writes in his book:
http://terrorism.about.com/b/2007/01...ve-thought.htm
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The USSR's invasion of Afghanistan was deliberately provoked. In his 1996 memoirs, former CIA director Robert Gates writes that the American intelligence services actually began to aid the mujahudeen guerrillas in Afghanistan not after the Soviet invasion of that country, but six months before it. And in a 1998 interview with the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Oberservateur,former president Carter's National Security Adviser,"Zbigniew Brzezinski, unambiguously confirmed Gates's assertion.
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The role the Americans played in funding the "holy warriors'" resistance to the Soviets is reasonably well known, though it isn't so polite to talk about these days. What is far less known is that American funding of the mujahideen began before the Soviet invasion.
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But what the fuck do they know?
You > Idiot.