If you want to understand America's long dance with Afghanistan you should go back to this June 16, 1986 meeting between Afghan leaders and Ronald Reagan in the White House. Reagan had invented "freedom fighters" from Angola to Libya to Laos to Nicarauga
The origins of these rebel go back to the 1985 "Jamboree in Jamba" at Savimbi training base in Angola. The meeting was primarily funded by former Rite Aid President Lewis Lehrman and organized by anti-Communist activists Jack Abramoff and Jack Wheeler. motherjones.com/politics/2005/…
The "Contras" were not only Dewey Clarridge/Olly North/Robert Owen managed militias but also include Khalifa Haftar who pretended to be an army in exile working from prison in N'Djamena, Chad. These men turned out to hired murderers of their own people. 
The premise was that America had to stop Soviet expansionism at any cost and being tied down in dirty wars across Africa and Asia would slow them down. Even if those nations weren't at war. And couched in a romantic narrative of Freedom and Democracy. motherjones.com/politics/2010/…
One could argue that Bin Laden was a direct product of our support of petro-dictatorships and our deliberate creation of violent nihilistic "black spaces" like Afghanistan made worse when the Soviets left. An extreme attempt to create order. cfr.org/backgrounder/t…
The counter-Soviet social experiments created places of chaos and people of a lost generation that embraced nihilism/socialism and almost suicidal movement to remove outside manipulation. Which in itself is manipulated by nihilist forces. brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
America is negotiating with the very people who supported bin Laden in his attacks of the US, were caught committing war crimes against Afghans, jailed in Gitmo and who control the criminal activities along the border for the ISI. Among them Haqqani's washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
America is being hometowned by the Haqqani's and the ISI using a convoluted Obama-era strategy that was invented to get Bergdahl back. With zero participation by the Afghan people. This is why I support Biden's unconditional withdrawal to break the chain. education.mei.edu/files/publicat…
Once clear of this Reagan era fantasy America can engage, ignore or focus on our regional interests with what ever entity we chose, free from Reagan era sinners, failed plans or horrible historical intentions. vice.com/en/article/4w7…
Will Saudi and UAE money want to bracket Iran by sending fuckerists and mercenaries into Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes. Will Russia and China make moves via corrupt "hybrid" methods? Yes. So we need a damn plan for how America deals with the real world. Or the fuckerists will win.
Some of this was recreated under Trump using some of the same people. Let's hope that Biden's team is listening to the voices on the ground who are actually watching this return to fuckery, this time bankrolled by desperate dictators posing as partners. c-span.org/video/?10353-1…
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