Ted Rall for October 05, 2012
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The 2000th U.S. soldier has died in Afghanistan, killed by an Afghan puppet soldier we trained to fight the Taliban, whose predecessors we funded and trained to fight the Soviets. Man 1: The timeline is clearly fubar. Man 2: There's only one solution: we must send someone back to 1979 to kick Zbiginiew Brezezinkis' butt.
Check your sources (or those below). Al Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet Occupation (which was much earlier). Check Muslim Brotherhood and the Mujahideen.http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html
The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in early 1989.http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07272007/alqaeda.html