Richard Miniter
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If if you want to talk about this in detail, there's much, much more evidence.
Um, but also think about it from the CIA's point of view, right?
A bunch of ideologically driven, ill-trained foreigners are not an ideal indigenous force to fight the Soviets.
The people who are fighting for their native lands, who speak local languages, whose political goal is simply to drive the Soviets out, not to create a religious utopia.
Those people are much easier to work with, far more controllable.
And far better trained, they'd been in combat.
Ор декадж Римр Афганістан гада сивор.
Uh, following the departure of the king.
In the nineteen seventies, um, where native Afghans were fighting communists, right?
And then when it looked like they were gonna succeed in driving the communists from power, the Soviet Union intervened to save their ideological allies, rolling tanks across the Oxus Bridge on Christmas Eve, nineteen seventy-nine.
So these people have been fighting Soviets and communists.
For decades.
They had organized training regimes, uh command structures.
Um, they were focused on the objective the CIA cared about.
CIA did not care about.
Trying to create a religious Muslim utopia in Afghanistan.
Not only that, but Al Qaeda was and and the other Arab jihadis were very hard to control.
Most of their attacks were on other Muslims, not on um
Soviets themselves.
Uh and for example
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