I'm pretty sure everyone knows that the CIA trained Bin Laden, but that was because we need the talaban's help fighting the Russians. He was never a CIA agent.
The Soviets were moving into Afghanistan. The CIA was sent to train locals who wanted to keep their land out of Soviet control.
We armed them, trained them, and gave them a mission. It was the best thing we could do at the time, short of a counter-invasion that could've sparked WWIII, that is.
If we left the Soviets alone, they would've had the capabilities to take the middle east and the resources to win almost any conventional war.
We armed them, trained them, and gave them a mission. It was the best thing we could do at the time, short of a counter-invasion that could've sparked WWIII, that is.
If we left the Soviets alone, they would've had the capabilities to take the middle east and the resources to win almost any conventional war.