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Originally posted by smooth
How is that different from the context of Al-Queda not being such a problem at the time? Do you remember where they learned the effective cell structure and military strategies from initially? "That was, obviously, a different situation 10 years ago."
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Hmm, and you assume the CIA must have foreseen that Al-Qaida would one day threaten the USA, and fly planes into the WTC?
More importantly, should the CIA *not* have trained Osama and his merry men? You know, so that Russia might still have been in Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union might not have suffered a humiliating defeat that pretty much ensured it's own downfall?
Sometimes one has to support some not-so-nice people to get rid of an even greater problem at that time. Just like the whole US-supporting-Iraq thing. Of course, everyone seems to forget that it wasn't just the US supporting Iraq, but that pretty much *everyone* supported Iraq in it's war against the huge threat in Iran... How about France's Chirac giving Saddam a guided tour of a nuke plant, German companies building chemical weapons factories, and Russian and French companies selling huge amounts of weapons to Iraq?
If you look at the "historical context", one has to look at *everything*, not just the things that support your side in a debate...