How Uncle Sam Seeded Global Jihad & Cultivates It to This Day

[MattSh]

They Sow the Cyclone — We Reap the Blowback — Essays by Dan Sanchez — Medium

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” — Hosea 8 : 7

It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The “great menace of our era” was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.

A 1973 coup in Afghanistan installed a new secular government that, while not fully communist, was Soviet-leaning. That was a capital offense from the perspective of America’s Cold War national security state, at the time headed by Henry Kissinger.

Conveniently for Kissinger, the dirt poor country was sandwiched between two US client states: Pakistan to the east and Iran (then still ruled by the CIA-installed Shah) to the west. Immediately after the coup, the CIA and the clandestine security agencies of Pakistan (ISI) and Iran (SAVAK) began regime change operations in Afghanistan, orchestrating and sponsoring Islamic fundamentalist insurrections and coup attempts.

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The Syrian Jihad, like the Afghan Jihad, was preceded by less direct and lower grade subversion using militant Islamists. In the Afghan prelude, America’s dirty work was done by Pakistan and Iran. In the Syrian prelude, it was done by the Saudis and lesser Gulf Sheikdoms, who with US approval, began sponsoring anti-Assad Salafist militias in neighboring Lebanon as early as 2006.

There were voices even among the Saudis who, like Eqbal Ahmad, darkly forebode blowback from dealing with such devils. One former Saudi diplomat warned:

“Salafis are sick and hateful, and I’m very much against the idea of flirting with them. They hate the Shiites, but they hate Americans more. If you try to outsmart them, they will outsmart us. It will be ugly.”


-----> https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/they-sow-the-cyclone-we-reap-the-blowback-dc938c9075a3#.d4ng4rva1

[AngryAmish]

1. The Koran was written by the CIA

[pampango]

2. The Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan had a little something to do with it.

The US funding of fundamentalists to defeat the USSR was successful in the short run, disastrous in the long run. If the outside world had left Afghanistan alone, we and they would be better off.

[randome]

3. And Russia's involvement in the area has nothing to do with it?

And Middle Eastern atrocities have nothing to do with it? America's hands are not clean but I don't think the turmoil is as 'productive' as one might think. The Cold war lunacy didn't help, of course. But 'cultivate'?

Peace is usually a better paying gig.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[Democat]

4. Everything bad in the world is America's fault according to DU

Including innocent people being shot while watching a concert in Paris.

[MattSh]

5. Oh, right...

America is "a shining city on a hill." - Ronald Reagan

I keep forgetting that.