Washington Monthly, 1 September 2021
A reminder that the latest round of Afghan wars did not start at 9/11, 2001. And interesting background on how “hawkish national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski” convinced Carter to start a covert support programme for the mujahedin, “ignoring the advice of his chief foreign policy adviser, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.”
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