(January 2, 2015 at 10:20 am)Faith No More Wrote: And guess who was one of those "freedom fighters" we armed to fight the Soviets? Osama Bin Laden. That's because one of the biggest travesties of our Middle East adventures is that we do so without even the slightest smidgen of foresight and a complete disrespect for the complexity of the region.
You said it yourself in your second paragraph, respect is certainly an issue, but the much bigger issue is ignorance. They didn't even know what awaited them.