>Yes'm...Bay of Pigs, Iraq after the first Gulf conflict, and on. We also help so many of those that we later condemn and attack (or try to undercut) because they serve a narrow purpose at the time. As long as Hussein was killing Iranians he was our ally, as long as the Taliban was fighting the Soviets, they were worthy of support. Although, if an elected leader started talking about land reform in his impoverished third world country to help the peasants and indigenous people, then call the CIA to start up the insurgency against that leader.

As long as the Muslims were fighting against Milosevic's proxies in Bosnia or his police in Kosovo, nobody here gave a damn about the presence of Al Qaida and other mujahedeen there. They git as much aid as needed - weapons, satellite phones, aerial reconnaissance data, aerial bombardment aid... you name it.

Several thousand of them got Bosnian citizenship and were pretty much free to move around the Europe with Bosnian passports, while others got married locally and even got to form a village of their own. Later, they applied whatever their combat experience elsewhere, wherever there was a chance to die for The Cause.