US Taught Jihad To Afghan Children

The United States government has played a crucial role in the development of the complex and volatile political situation that now exists in the Middle East, and they have had a heavy hand in influencing the region since the first world war.

From propping up dictators to funding rebel groups for regime change, the U.S. and their allies have been creating monsters in the Middle East for generations. Western involvement in the region became more pronounced and more militarized during the Cold War, where the western allies and the Soviets fought proxy wars all over the world.

Afghanistan was one of the primary battlegrounds where these proxy wars took place, and at the time, the U.S. military was supplying militants in Afganistan with training and weapons to be used against the Soviets who also had political and strategic interests in the region.

The tactics used by the U.S. government extended far beyond traditional warfare and entered tse realm of psychological warfare. From the Cold War period until very recently, the U.S. government spent millions of dollars supplying Afghan schoolchildren with propagandized textbooks that had violent images and militant jihadi teachings. The motive behind this propaganda was to actually radicalize the Afghan children so they would be more willing to fight against the Soviets when they got older.

According to the Washington Post, the textbooks were published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtu and developed in the early 1980’s at a cost of $51 million.

The schoolbooks were even approved by the Taliban because the teachings were not far off from their own worldview.

This propaganda effort was only made public after the U.S. government went to war in Afghanistan in 2002 and it was revealed through the media that the western curriculum being taught in Afghan schools was actually promoting jihad.

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You reap what you sow.

This reminds me of something else from our past:

1. In the 1960s the US armed and supported Cuban refugees in an effort to use them to overthrow Fidel Castro. Their fingerprints (for some reason) were later all over the JFK assassination.

2. And in the 1980s we armed and supported Afghan jihadis in an effort to use them to destroy the former Soviet Union. Their fingerprints (for some reason) allegedly were later all over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Are these just coincidences, or did someone decide to use "our" terrorists for domestic operations? After all, a resource like this, once developed, must not be wasted. It can be used for a multitude of things ... almost all bad.