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Obama and Hillary have carried on a policy that, while it helped defeat the Russkies in Afghan land, has had and continues to have horrible consequences. And now Hillary seems to have a chance to be the next president.

Blurtman says

while it helped defeat the Russkies in Afghan land

Wasn't that Reagan. At least he did things for a reason. Obozo/Hillary do things because it feels good and they care about climate change-like not bombing ISIS oil wells.

I only hate Christians that eat that unclean swine.

lostand confused says

Wasn't that Reagan.

The CIA started to fund the mujahideen as early as 1985 (Reagan). The strategy has been continued subsequently and the current adherents are Obama and Hillary.

"The origins of al-Qaeda as a network inspiring terrorism around the world and training operatives can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989).[29] The US viewed the conflict in Afghanistan, with the Afghan Marxists and allied Soviet troops on one side and the native Afghan mujahideen, some of whom were radical Islamic militants, on the other, as a blatant case of Soviet expansionism and aggression. A CIA program called Operation Cyclone channeled funds through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to the Afghan Mujahideen who were fighting the Soviet occupation.[96]

In 1984, Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), or the "Services Office", a Muslim organization founded to raise and channel funds and recruit foreign mujahideen for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, was established in Peshawar, Pakistan, by bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian Islamic scholar and member of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAK organized guest houses in Peshawar, near the Afghan border, and gathered supplies for the construction of paramilitary training camps to prepare foreign recruits for the Afghan war front. Bin Laden became a "major financier" of the mujahideen, spending his own money and using his connections with "the Saudi royal family and the petro-billionaires of the Gulf" to influence public opinion about the war and raise additional funds.[99]

Omar Abdel-Rahman
From 1986, MAK began to set up a network of recruiting offices in the US, the hub of which was the Al Kifah Refugee Center at the Farouq Mosque on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue. Among notable figures at the Brooklyn center were "double agent" Ali Mohamed, whom FBI special agent Jack Cloonan called "bin Laden's first trainer,"[100] and "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman, a leading recruiter of mujahideen for Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda evolved from MAK.

Azzam and bin Laden began to establish camps in Afghanistan in 1987.[101]

US government financial support for the Afghan Islamic militants was substantial. Aid to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan mujahideen leader and founder and leader of the Hezb-e Islami radical Islamic militant faction, alone amounted "by the most conservative estimates" to $600 million. Later, in the early 1990s, after the US had withdrawn support, Hekmatyar "worked closely" with bin Laden.[102] In addition to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid, Hekmatyar was the recipient of the lion's share of Saudi aid.[103] There is evidence that the CIA supported Hekmatyar's drug trade activities by giving him immunity for his opium trafficking, which financed the operation of his militant faction.[104]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Jihad_in_Afghanistan

State Department claims it "Brought Peace to Syria" in 2015.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/state-department-claims-peace-syria-2015-win-217168