Financial support Quote by Fred Halliday

“the West, in violation of the April 1988 UN agreement on a Soviet withdrawal, continued to arm and finance the rebels and in the…

— Fred Halliday

“Within a few short, dramatic months Afghanistan had been catapulted into the centre of the intensified Cold War between the Soviet Union and the…

— Ahmed Rashid

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“One only had to go to Kabul airport to see a classic example of the aid community helping itself rather than Afghans. The scariest…

— Christina Lamb

It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

— Noam Chomsky

After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has…

— Erik Prince

“The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and national services,…

— Michael DeLong

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought…

— Jill Stein

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It is the political change in international relations as well as a change in superpower fortunes which indicate that the days of successful unilateral…

— Richard Connaughton

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

— Noam Chomsky