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Jan 30, 2014StarGladiator rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This is an atrocious, revisionistic piece of claptrap and nonsense. According to a French radio interview in the late 1990s with Zbig Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, President Carter signed a presidential directive to destabilize the then-secular government of Afghanistan, as they felt it was too friendly with its northern boarder neighbor, the Soviet Union. The Carter administration, together with the Saudis, would relocate Wahabist fundamentalist extremists, from Saudia Arabia and Yemen, to Afghanistan's northern border with the USSR, which then was occupied by the moderate Islamic Sufi practitioners (who made up much of the later Northern Alliance). (This occurred six months prior to the hostages taken in Iran, and the Iranians were well aware of what was transpiring next door to them.) To quell the religious turmoil the Wahabists were raising, and at the behest of the Afghanistani president, the Soviets invaded. First the Carter administration, then the Reagan administration funneled money and arms to what would become the Mujahadeen who, before they ever engaged the Soviet soldiers, first murdered all the remaining secularists (artists, professionals academics, et cetera). This was recounted in a book titled, "Bleeding Afghanistan" by an Afghanistani lady author. Entertainment, by the lamer Hanks, and real history are two entirely different critters! Of course, the Mujahadeen later morphed into the Taliban, and we don't hear too much about this anymore from Zbig!