Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Carter, told a French journal in 1998 that the US began aiding Afghan rebels six months before the 1979 Soviet invasion - contrary to the "official version of history." He went on to gloat that one purpose of this was to draw the USSR into its own Vietnam. (We all know how that turned out.) A quote:
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?
Republicans in Congress banned news cameras from the hearings of the effects on civil liberties of the proposed anti-terrorism legislation after Ashcroft's commentary. Why???