While we are 'being protected' from what President Jimmy Carter created in Afghanistan in 1979 - by Obama sending additional troops to war and bombings in Pakistan, - let's remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' counsel, that today's occupation wars should be seen in context of imperialism and predatory capitalism. And not forget! It didn't start on 9/11/2001.

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How did it all start?  It did not start on 9/11/2001!

In July 1979, President Carter began secretly funding, arming and training  the fundamentalist hill tribes attacking a modern women emancipating government in Kabul,

Carter's advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, famously bragged to the French press, January 1998, of having suckered the Soviets into intervening in Afghanistan to support the Socialist Kabul government. The Russians moved into Afghanistan in December to support that government six months AFTER the CIA, along with Saudi and Pakistani secret services began supporting fundamentalists who were especially against the education of girls.

This was the first support of Islamic terror - secret, Carter authorized, covert funding of  terrorists who were executing teachers of girls.

Under Reagan, this program was of course greatly expanded and was no longer secret, as it could be justified for being against the Soviet military in Afghanistan. The Wahhabi sect extreme form of Islam was introduced from Saudi Arabia with financial cooperation from the Pentagon, and eventually tens of thousands of madrasahs were established in Persian speaking Afghanistan; schools that would produce thousands of new fighters, including fighters that would join up under Osama bin-Laden, who would also received U.S. funding.

Active enlistment was fostered in Islamic countries almost everywhere, internationalizing an Islamic fundamentalist army that would force the Soviets to begin to pull out in 1988.

There followed a period in which various war lords that had been backed by the U.S. created a havoc of war and chaos, where social safety, especially that of women, was totally compromised. In this hopelessness was born the Taliban to bring strict Islamic law into lawless and frightful conditions of internecine warfare.

The U.S. policy vaguely supported the Taliban, any deep interest being lost once the Soviets had been driven out. It negotiated some pipe line deals, counting on the Taliban to maintain order.

Afghanistan has suffered an enormous amount of death and destruction. The average citizen in the street in America is not aware that it all began with President Jimmy Carter's now documented decision, a covert homicidal crime against a small agricultural nation and a new government trying to bring Afghanistan into the modern world. The fascinated audience of the U.S. mass-media cartel knows only of second part of the story, that of the U.S. successfully helping heroic Afghan fighters beat the Soviet bad guys.

The rest of the story is better know by the American public - Bin Laden's bombings, described by him as Islamic reactions to U.S. presence and foreign policies in Islamic countries, a seemingly unprovoked 9/ll, and the Bush invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, even though it was Saudi nationals who suicided themselves at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

But how many remember or ever knew how it all began?

In his book From the Shadows, Bush and Obama's secretary of war, Robert Gates, only mentions in passing that Carter injected the CIA into Afghan history a half year before the Soviets felt obligated to respond.

President Jimmy Carter?  Nobel Peace Prize holder?  Kind negotiator for difficult confrontations?  Who wants to believe what he ordered the CIA to do on July 3, 1979?

Here is the way Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's Presidential Advisor, who is now President Obama's advisor, and already Obama's foreign affairs expert during his campaign, put it to Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
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Sure!  But while we are 'being protected' from what Carter created in Afghanistan and President Obama continues making good of his promise to bomb Pakistan and send lots of troops to Afghanistan, let us remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' counsel, that today's occupation wars should be seen in context of imperialism and predatory capitalism as practiced world wide.

And forget that commercial media hype about fighting for freedom and democracy. Though murdered people can be said to be 'free', their deaths in war are not democratic.

Albert Einstein said that he would rather be to torn to pieces than participate in war.

P.S. Yours truly is really tired of writing articles on what is readily available on the Internet.

Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.