Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan

According to this 1998 interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA's
intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 Soviet invasion. This decision
of the Carter Administration in 1979 to intervene and destabilise
Afghanistan is the root cause of Afghanistan's destruction as a nation.
M.C.
The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
Posted at 
globalresearch.ca
 15 October 2001
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Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his
memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to
aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention.
In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter.
You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to
the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army
invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until
now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President
Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the
pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the
president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going
to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But
perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to
provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we
knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they
intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in
Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of
truth. You don't regret anything today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the
effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to
regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote
to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its
Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war
unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the
demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism,
having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the
collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of
Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic
fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to
Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a
rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading
religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in
common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan
militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more
than what unites the Christian countries.
Translated from the French by Bill Blum
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Kabul.
E chiaramente lui non puo' mostrare questi documenti "signed" dal
presidente Carter ;) :))
*LOL*
-Stefano

 ha scritto nel messaggio
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Mi sembra dimostri (senza documenti ufficiali come sempre) quale era e quale
forse e' ancora il pensiero dominante alla Casa Bianca.
- Primo l'ossessione comunista, qualsiasi mezzo era lecito e lo e' ancora
per sconfiggere l'URSS.
Taleban compresi, rendersi conto della scarsa etica, se vanno bene i Taleban
va bene tutto compreso il diavolo.
- Secondo la convinzione di aver distrutto il nemico, dato errato, l'URSS si
e' suicidata per motivi interni (questo chi ha vissuto la' prima del crollo
lo sa), non e' stato papa Woitila (salito al soglio dopo una strana morte),
non e' stato l'afghanistan con la CIA, ne la crisi polacca fatta di chiese
nuove di zecca fatte su forse con i soldi del Banco Ambrosiano, per conto
mio la molla consumista ha avuto un peso maggiore, fattore umano.
- Terzo la sottovalutazione del fattore islamico, per lui quattro mussulmani
esagitati, dice chiaro che avere i Taleban valeva il prezzo della caduta del
muro.
Se fosse vero potrebbe anche andare, ma il muro e' venuto giu senza i
Taleban, a mio avviso, il che dimostra autocompiacimento, scarsa
comprensione della realta', sottovalutazione dell'islam, sottovalutazione
del fattore umano, in sintesi visione miope e poco intelligente,
Questa gente comanda le regole del gioco, se gli USA non cambiano
generazione sono fottuti, sono ancora fermi a Patton.
Saluti Cad Ali'
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