Why did the mujahedeen receive US support even though they were against some American ideals?
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Why the United States financed the Kabul regime.
After the hour of amazement comes the moment of explanation. If the motivations of this act of war against America are still difficult to define, the identity of their authors seems to be clarified. The word Taliban and the name Osama bin Laden seem to prevail. For lack of knowing exactly who these Taliban are, a vast nebula of Afghan Pashtuns and Arabs from the Gulf, the question: "Who made them?" Already has an answer.
Afghanistan war. Unfortunately, the thousands of victims on Tuesday, September 11, constitute the macabre ransom of inconsistencies in US policy in Afghanistan. In the early 1980s, the United States provided important logistical support to Afghans engaged in a terrible war against the Soviet Union. Support symbolized by the supply of ground-to-air missiles, the dreaded Stinger. This American aid was, in fact, managed directly by Pakistan and focused on one of the leaders of the Afghan resistance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Coming from the Pashtun ethnic group, a population of which a part also lives in Pakistan (where they are called Pathan), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was a familiar of the circles of the power of Pakistan, in particular of Zia ul-Haq. Most of the American aid was given to the detriment of another military commander, Major Massoud. The latter, a Tajik (25% of the population of Afghanistan), inspired less confidence in Islamabad.
First betrayal. At the end of the war in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's soldiers, emboldened by their success, began a new fight against this impious America, accused of persecuting Muslims in Bosnia and Somalia. The symbol of this struggle was the first attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993. First treason. It is at this moment that Americans become aware of the threat posed by these extremist movements.
Washington decided to set up and finance, with the help of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a movement called the Taliban, with two goals in mind. The priority is to eradicate the Islamist movements present in Afghanistan by establishing a rigorous and stable political regime, like that of Saudi Arabia.
But the funding of the Taliban is also explained by an oil interest largely forgotten today. In the mid-90s, the Caspian and coastal states' hydrocarbons aroused the envy of the US consortium Unocal. But this region of Central Asia is landlocked. The idea will then germinate to build a gas pipeline, coupled with an oil pipeline from Turkmenistan, which should lead to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan.
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Your answer :
Why the United States financed the Kabul regime.
After the hour of amazement comes the moment of explanation. If the motivations of this act of war against America are still difficult to define, the identity of their authors seems to be clarified. The word Taliban and the name Osama bin Laden seem to prevail. For lack of knowing exactly who these Taliban are, a vast nebula of Afghan Pashtuns and Arabs from the Gulf, the question: "Who made them?" Already has an answer.
Afghanistan war. Unfortunately, the thousands of victims on Tuesday, September 11, constitute the macabre ransom of inconsistencies in US policy in Afghanistan. In the early 1980s, the United States provided important logistical support to Afghans engaged in a terrible war against the Soviet Union. Support symbolized by the supply of ground-to-air missiles, the dreaded Stinger. This American aid was, in fact, managed directly by Pakistan and focused on one of the leaders of the Afghan resistance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Coming from the Pashtun ethnic group, a population of which a part also lives in Pakistan (where they are called Pathan), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was a familiar of the circles of the power of Pakistan, in particular of Zia ul-Haq. Most of the American aid was given to the detriment of another military commander, Major Massoud. The latter, a Tajik (25% of the population of Afghanistan), inspired less confidence in Islamabad.
First betrayal. At the end of the war in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's soldiers, emboldened by their success, began a new fight against this impious America, accused of persecuting Muslims in Bosnia and Somalia. The symbol of this struggle was the first attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993. First treason. It is at this moment that Americans become aware of the threat posed by these extremist movements.
Washington decided to set up and finance, with the help of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a movement called the Taliban, with two goals in mind. The priority is to eradicate the Islamist movements present in Afghanistan by establishing a rigorous and stable political regime, like that of Saudi Arabia.
But the funding of the Taliban is also explained by an oil interest largely forgotten today. In the mid-90s, the Caspian and coastal states' hydrocarbons aroused the envy of the US consortium Unocal. But this region of Central Asia is landlocked. The idea will then germinate to build a gas pipeline, coupled with an oil pipeline from Turkmenistan, which should lead to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan.
Good bye ;)
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