>>So do I. I'm still unclear on your take on this Brzezinsky guy - did he invent all this, or was this a vast case of slanted translation, or what he said somehow doesn't count as CIA helping create a mujahedeen force in Afghanistan? Or is this just another link one can find on the web?
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>It's just your way to interpret anything to detriment of USA. Some other person would consider it quite normal to resist opponent's ambitions in Cold War environment. Basically, you are blind in your passion and make no distinction between Bin Laden and CIA.

I'm not defending the other side either - there were a very few good guys at all in the whole story. I'm just trying to break the illusion that the US were the good guys, which is trumpeted by the propaganda here. I'm very allergic to propaganda, no matter the color (red, blue, commercial, religious, political, you name it), and I've been exposed to it from several directions over time. You recognize the technique in use.

And the distinction between Bin Laden and USA is that they are not on the same side anymore, and that he's less reluctant to hit civilians, and when he does, he doesn't try to hide it.