Russophobes in the past U.S. Administrations are responsible for the previous and present wars in Afghanistan, creation of Al Qaeda and 9/11. Part 1. -The Bush administration former claims that it was targeting Osama bin Laden, who it said masterminded the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (even though it has offered no concrete evidence to back up this accusation), and Afghanistan's Taliban government. But as the Economist magazine noted soon after September 11, " Anti-russian policies of U.S. government in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An examination of this history will reveal the extent to which U.S. foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term pursuit of narrow interests.
Since the late 1970s Afghanistan has suffered continuous and brutal civil war between secular government in Kabul and Mujahideen (holy warriors) in the countryside. The Mujahideen belonged to various different factions, but all shared, to varying degrees, a similarly conservative Islamic ideology. As part of a Cold War strategy, in 1979, Russophobes in U.S. saw the situation in Afghanistan as a prime opportunity to weaken the Soviet Union . The US government began to covertly fund forces ranged against the pro-Soviet government that was trying to keep Afghanistan as secular state. Russophobes didnt mind to back rebels whose tactics were extremely brutal. The Washington Post reported that the Mujahedeen liked to "torture victims by first cutting off their noses, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another." Soon after the massacre of Soviet advisers in Herat (and their families in March 24, 1979) the situation got out of control. The government, led by pro-Soviet People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, had no choice now but to crush Islamic extremists. Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin's police force went into action across Afghanistan, army troops were sent into the countryside to subdue "feudal" villagers, but without much success. To prevent fall of the secular government in the neighboring state, the Soviet Union citing the "1978 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness" that had been signed between the two countries, answered calls for help from Kabul and intervened on December 24, 1979. Soon over 80,000 Soviet troops took part in the Initially "rescue operation" backed by one hundred thousand troops of fragile Afghan government.
Russophobes in U.S. government immediately declared that the invasion jeopardized vital U.S. interests, because the Persian Gulf area was "now threatened by Soviet troops in Afghanistan. But Russophobes' public outrage at Russian intervention in Afghanistan was doubly duplicitous. Not only was it used as an excuse for a program of increased military expenditure that had in fact already begun, but the U.S. had in fact been aiding the mujahideen for at least the previous six months, with precisely the hope of provoking a Soviet response. Former CIA director Robert Gates later admitted in his memoirs that aid to the rebels began in June 1979. In a candid 1998 interview, infamous Russophobe Zbigniew Brezinski, then national security adviser, confirmed that U.S. aid to the rebels began before the invasion. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979, that President Carter (under heavy pressure from Brezinski) signed the first directive for secret aid to the Afghan Mujahedeen, who were fierce opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. U.S. government knew that this aid was going to induce (wanted by Brezinski) Soviet military intervention. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap.... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border Russophobes had the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War. The Carter administration was well aware that in backing the mujahideen it was supporting forces with reactionary social goals, but this was outweighed by its own geopolitical interests. In August 1979, a classified State Department report bluntly asserted that "the United States' larger interest...would be served by the demise of the Taraki-Amin regime, despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic reforms in Afghanistan." That same month, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, State Department spokesperson Hodding Carter piously announced that the U.S. "expect[s] the principle of nonintervention to be respected by all parties in the area, including the Soviet Union."
The Russian intervention, in December 1979, that meant to save the secular Afghan government and to prevent neighboring country from turning into "terrorist state" was the signal for U.S. Russophobes to increase dramatically support to the Afghan Mujahedeen.
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