President Ronald Reagan Dedicating Shuttle Columbie Launch To Afghanistan 1982

[dynaco]

This is tells you pretty much everything you need to know about US foreign policy: it's absolutely amoral and totally opportunistic. Less than 15 years after this speech those same Afghani "freedom fighters" which Reagan says represent "the highest aspirations of mankind" had coalesced as the Taliban taken control of Afghanistan. You know the rest, maybe.

[onehappiness]

The U.S. sabotaged the Soviet effort to win hearts and minds and to rebuild Afghanistan in the 80s, which they initially tried to do. Now the U.S. are spending billions trying to do it themselves and who will sabotage them? Iran maybe? Maybe Pakistan? In any case, hate to say it but you had comin to you America. The Taliban is your Frankenstein and bin Laden the bride of Frankenstein.