The Covert Origins of ISIS Officially the U.S. governments arming and funding of the Mujahideen was a response to the Soviet invasion in December of 1979, however in his memoir entitled From the Shadows Robert Gates, director of the CIA under Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior, and Secretary of Defense under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, revealed that the U.S. actually began the covert operation 6 months prior, with the express intention of luring the Soviets into a quagmire. The strategy worked. The Soviets invaded, and the ten years of war that followed are considered by many historians as being one of the primary causes of the fall of the USSR. This example doesnt just establish precedent, what were seeing happen in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria right now is actually a continuation of a old story. Al-Nusra and ISIS are ideological and organizational decedents of these extremist elements that the U.S. government made use of thirty years ago.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:13:35 +0000
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