Part 2. U.S. War in Afghanistan Became World's Biggest Drug Business That Kills Tens of Thousands

Part 2. Info continues from the previous video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEFLS6luGTo -

By February 1980, the Washington Post reported that the mujahideen was receiving massive arms coming from the U.S. government.
The objective of the intervention, as spelled out by Brezinski, was to trap the Soviets in a long and costly war designed to drain their resources, just as Vietnam had bled the United States. The high level of civilian casualties that this would certainly entail was considered but set aside. According to one senior official, "The question here was whether it was morally acceptable that, in order to keep the Soviets off balance, which was the reason for the operation, it was permissible to use other lives for our geopolitical interests." Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner answered the question: "I decided I could live with that." To hurt the Russians, the Russophobes in U.S. deliberately chose to give the most support to the most extreme groups. A disproportionate share of U.S. arms went to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, "a particularly fanatical fundamentalist and woman-hater."' According to journalist Tim Weiner, " [Hekmatyar's] followers first gained attention by throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. State Department officials I have spoken with call him 'scary,' 'vicious,' 'a fascist,' 'definite dictatorship material."
There was, though, a kind of method in the madness: Brezinski hoped not just to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan, but to ferment unrest within the Soviet Union itself. His plan, says author Dilip Hiro, was "to export a composite ideology of nationalism and Islam to the Muslim-majority Central Asian states and Soviet Republics with a view to destroying the Soviet Union." Looking back in 1998, Brezinski had no regrets. "What was more important in the world view of history?... Well, as result of his Russo-phobic politics U.S. had 9/11 and U.S. fighting for eight years disastrous Afghan war, hoping to give back power to another secular government the same idea Russians were fighting for.
With the support of Pakistan's military dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq, the U.S. began recruiting and training both mujahideen fighters from the Afghans in Pakistan and large numbers of mercenaries from other Islamic countries. Estimates of how much money the U.S. government channeled to the Afghan rebels over the next decade vary, but most sources put the figure between $5 billion and $6 billion, or more. Whatever the exact amount, this was "the largest covert action program since World War II" - much bigger, for example, than Washington's intervention in Central America at the same time, which received considerably more publicity.
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he found many Russophobes in U.S. Congress eager to increase spending on the Afghan war. In March 1985, the Reagan administration issued National Security Decision Directive 166,29 a plan to escalate covert action in Afghanistan dramatically:
Abandoning a policy of simple harassment of Soviets, the Reagan team decided secretly to let loose on the Afghan battlefield an array of U.S. high technology and military expertise in an effort to hit and demoralize Soviet commanders and soldiers....
Beginning in 1985, the U.S. supplied Mujahideen rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations based on the satellite intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives for urban sabotage, and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
Between 1986 and 1989, the mujahideen were also provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles.By 1987, the annual supply of arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon officials were visiting Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi and helping to plan mujahideen operations. CIA operations officers helped Pakistani trainers establish schools for the mujahideen in secure communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and heavy weapons. As a result, over the past years, the "Afghani" network has been linked to terrorist attacks not only on U.S. targets, but also in the Philippines, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, France, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and elsewhere... "This is an insane instance of the chickens coming home to roost," one U.S. diplomat in Pakistan told the Los Angeles Times...
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[johnthesencond]

Bullshit idc what anyone says the beurocrats aren't stupid enough to do that.

[AFGwarrior786]

Its the cia faults.

[rdiaz978]

why americans are in that country, we dont have problems whit opium or drugs from adganistan? alcaeda,talibans  hahahahahaha.Think if you can, sleepers

[Kingdoc1976]

Trully shamefull.

[daDfarSpanTaistheKin]

ya taliban issued a decree banning all opium and ordering strict implementations of these orders which resulted in the almost zero production of these items in Afghanistan... it hardly supplied 3-5 % and that too was due to the Northern Alliances .. who were against taliban and with Communists USSR .. and now these Northern alliances are with USA... and with USA in charge of the affairs of afg it is no surprise of it being the producer of 95% world opium.....

[WordecodethitX2]

Before the U.S attack the taliban was burning poppy fields...now mysteriously the opium production has increased rapidly.

[Twistanewzd]

Yeah The USA DID INVADE AFGHANISTAN . They can grow poopys if they want ... whos to say fking usa has a say wtf do they think they are ??? ... its not thier country and its not upto the media to judge or stick up for the barstards that take out money and ruin our familys.

[op3nupsh0p]

I had no idea they called it the U.S. INVASION of Afghanistan...

[CassettePlaya1]

Interesting video