Monday, January 24, 2011

"These Gentlemen are the Moral Equivalents of America's Founding Fathers"

Remember when Reagan brought a group of militant Afghan rebels into the White House? Of course you do! I mean, he compared them to the likes of William Whipple, William Floyd, William Paca, William Hooper,William Ellery, and, of course, William Williams. You'd literally have to be a moron not to remember this, or at least, not remember learning about it (like I did when we discussed it in great detail in my AP American History class in high school). Anyway, Ronny was balls deep in a fake war with the USSR. Even though he had space lasers that protected us, he felt it was necessary to run up his ridiculous deficit even more (~$180 Billion in 1985) by arming a bunch of extremists to the teeth. So he invited the Taliban over for some cinnamon rolls and decaf coffee, and sent them packing with a bunch of weapons.

"We, uh, we called that the stinger. They...they don't let you use that no more."
Rondo gave them a bunch of hand-held surface to air missile launchers called Stingers. The CIA was like "You stupid old man. Those things are way to dangerous to give to a bunch of rebels... wait... a THOUSAND?! You gave them a THOUSAND?!" After the US's ill-attempts to get them back, they're still used by Taliban rebels today. Oh, and they're also found all across the middle east. They've got Reagan's fudgy fingerprints all over them. Nobody can accurately pinpoint the number of American casualties caused by these SAM's, but I can calculate that it is somewhere between a butt-load and a crap-ton.

3 comments:

  1. Well, I won't disagree with your assertion that Reagan wasn't one of our best presidents, but I do have to take issue with part of what you wrote.

    Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX)was the leader in pushing for our involvement in Afghanistan. He was the one who worked in Congress to get them to approve the CIA-led covert mission to fund, arm, and train the Mujaheddin, which we all now know turned into the Taliban.

    Wilson, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, managed to garner approval for approximately $100 million of taxpayer money to support the Mujaheddin in the fight against the communists, who were backed by the Soviet Union.

    None of this required the intervention of or approval of the president.

    While protecting the Afghanis from communist take-over was a noble goal, as with previous US interventions of this kind (Castro, Reza Pahlavi, Qaddafi, Noriega), funding the Mujaheddin, which included a young leader named Osama bin Ladin, remains, at best, a controversial endeavor.

    Reagan's greatest failures in office were not with his foreign relations policies (although I don't think they are as remarkable as people like to give him credit for), but in his domestic policies - especially his economic policies.

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  2. I'm sure Reagan is burning in hell...

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  3. Reagan was another puppet of the big lobbies, he did what they wanted to be done at that time...

    But yes, maybe the worst president of USA.
    Tell the thousands of people killed because of him.

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