Iran says could hit U.S. if it came under attack: paper

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Plezbo said:

The Mujahideen was a loosely united coalition of different groups with different ideologies. The United States mostly funded the Northern Alliance, led by Massoud, a non-radical, down to Earth leader who Osama bin Laden had killed several days before 9/11 to fragment any opposition to his Al Qaeda. If you would check your facts you would see that the Mujahideen was funded by not only the US, but China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and most all of the Western European powers. It was done to try and stop the Soviets from steam rolling Afghanistan, and to embroil them in a can't-win war. It worked, marvelously. What wasn't marvelous was after the Soviets left, there was no transitional aid provided for schools, rebuilding, etc. That was wrong, and one of Ronald Reagan's biggest mistakes. Getting involved in that conflict was the right thing to do, If you truly believe that America started that war, you are completely ignorant.

Also, had Massoud not been assassinated, the Afghan War would have ended long ago, Massoud was a leader everyone in Afghanistan could have rallied behind. bin Laden knew this, and had him killed to prevent a quick victory by the United States and the Northern Alliance.

If you truly do not believe that Stalin purposely starved his own people, again, very naive. Here is a man who had his closest Ally (Sergei Kirov) and more than likely, his own wife, killed, to further his agenda. Kirov's assassination set the stage for the purge of the old Soviets, including Trotsky, and the total unification of Soviet power under Stalin's iron fist. Saying America is worse than the Soviet Union truly shows your lack of understanding of world events, and your willing blindness to the attrocities committed by that brutal, hegemonic regime. I understand you have your issues with our country, but blaming it for the world's problems shows that you are not only blind to reality, but a blind zealot, which is incredibly dangerous. 

I never asserted that America started the Afghan Civil War, don't make a straw man. I asserted that getting involved was clearly the wrong thing to do, especially in light of the complete lack of post war security and reconstruction aid. It seems that America has a thing for opposing secular governments in the Middle East and their involvement always seems to give rise to militant Islam. So what if America's allies were also guilty of the same crimes? It makes them no less dispicable. Do you think that the Mujahideen would have been funded by countries such as Canada if there were no American involvement? I am not blind to the attrocities committed by the Soviet Union, but you seem to be blind to the atrocities committed by America. What about the Dirty War, 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Internal conflict in Peru, Salvadoran Civil War and Guatemalan Civil War? What about the Battalion 3–16 death squad in Honduras? You assert that these nations needed to be kept out of the hands of the Soviet Union but they appear to be worse off thanks to America's intervention. Between the lack of reconstruction and extremely brutal tactics utilized by the CIA and American military millions of people have died on the continent and regional stability and economic development are pipe dreams for the majority in South America. Do I need to get into Vietnam and Laos? How about America's involvement in the Iraq-Iran War? What about the current wars in Iraq and Libya? You call me naive but you seem to be the naive one. America is no better than the Soviet Union, it's just another empire that will do whatever it takes to kill its enemies. The U.S. will continue to interfere in foreign conflicts, taking sides in civil wars, funding terrorist organizations and despots, starting wars in every remote corner of the Earth in order to occupy and control as much of the planet it can. Millions of lives are lost furthering America's agenda and it's not an agenda of peace and prosperity, merely power.