[url=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/104.html]Afghanistan: A Forgotten Chapter[/url] By John Ryan, Canadian Dimension,
November/December 2001
That's a good short essay on what happened at the beginning of the 30 year-long US-led military and CIA involvement in Afghanistan. It's definitely not Charlie Wilson's or Hollywood's version of recent history of Afghanistan. [url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Ahmed/ahmed-con0.html]Ahmed Khaled[/url] also provides a rundown of how the CIA and elites destroyed democracy in his country in order to wage anti-communist jihad in Afghanistan. The goal was to destroy secular socialist thought in Central Asia and provide not only Pakistan with "strategic depth" in Afghanistan but the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia, etc was well. They brought in mercenaries from about 40 countries and created all of the Taliban and al-Qa'eda as a result. Karzai is a pro-Mujahideen stooge from the cold war era, and now he and his brother head-up the current US-backed narco-kleptocracy in Kabul.