RE: BREAKING: Cold War-era Wahhabism used as tool against Soviets. Saudi Arabia Admits
March 30, 2018 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2018 at 2:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 30, 2018 at 1:52 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(March 30, 2018 at 9:18 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Not exactly new news. The USA was supplying anti-Soviet elementary school textbooks in Afghanistan into the 1990s. One amusing example of the kind of content we were supplying: T is for topak (gun). How do you use the word? My uncle has a gun. He does jihad with the gun. (Pashto version).
More:
If, out of 10 atheists, five were killed by 1 Muslim, 5 would be left.
5 guns + 5 guns=10 guns
15 bullets -10 bullets=5 bullets
These were children's primers, and used throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban used them, and has reprinted them. At least some of what's happening in those regions can be laid at the feet of American propaganda aimed at schoolchildren...who grew up and retained those lessons.
If you talked like this 20 years ago, you'll get demolished by accusations of being a "conspiracy theorist", or by "immense silence" from the people. Or my favorite accusation: "Tin Foil".
Now what "Tin Foil"s repeated for years, turned out to be the actual fact and actual truth. Al Qaeda IS a backfire of the American rash foreign policies and proxy tactics, Saudi Arabia IS a factory of terrorists -the JASTA law issued by the congress not just proves this; it even underlines it as a fact that the American department has to execute by the power of law-.
What "tin foils" repeated for years was the truth. I'm sorry Mr Agenda; but through my childhood to my adulthood; people who even "linked" 9/11 to the government or the soviet era clashes and to Saudi Arabia, were immediately called "tin foils".
The news are not new. But the admission and the confession is so new; it is stamped with "2018" as evidence for its freshness.
I never knew about the kinds of intervention in the subjects at school in Afghanistan. The approach in Saudi Arabia is quite different; but they both have the same base: "poison the minds of the kids; and you rule".
Atlas, the difference between a realist and a conspiracy theorist is the conspiracy theorist is a misanthrope who give short thrift to men's capacity to blunder in so many other ways, while a realist isn't.
