Here he is meeting with Taliban Leaders (Reagan helped create the Taliban) when he called them: "These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers."
I guess we'll agree to disagree on that one. The "Cold War" was Ronnie Raygun's way of enriching the Military Industrial Complex.
Nothing wrong with disagreeing. If we all agreed about everything these forums would be pretty damn boring.
We should have stayed out of it. But Reagan had an election to "win". Jimmy Carter was railroaded out of office.
From your own link - No one could have foreseen that by helping liberate Afghanistan would directly lead to 9/11.
not sure what point you are trying to make about the taliban by bringing up iran contra i guess his support of the mujahidin fighters in afghanistan indirectly lead to the taliban and al-qaeda
just goes to show, dont give other countries weapons or military training, more often than not it seems they use it against us
would have been nice, but i think after the soviet backed north vietnamese held us off for a decade plus, the US thought they had it coming, so we gave them a vietnam of their own it would have been appropriate if the north vietnamese then flew planes into russias two tallest buildings i guess, but thats a story for my alternate universe novel
The Tehran deal was before the election, and resulted in several more months of suffering by the hostages and their families. Iran-Contra was later.
yes, complete garbage, and completely par for the course i mean the US aided al-qaeda THIS YEAR for gods sake, complaining about the contras is old hat. while we are at it, lets rehash the gulf of tonkin incident, or noriegas cia credentials
Yes I know that. But you were talking about the ethnic cleansing that happened after the Iron Curtain collapsed and that had nothing to with Carter or Iran.
