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Siehe dieses Interview auf der Homepage der Uni Arizona:
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his
memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the
Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. Is
this period, you were the national securty advisor to President Carter.
You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid
to the Mujahiddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet
army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely
guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979
that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote
a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion
this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention [emphasis
added throughout].
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But
perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into the war and looked
for a way to provoke it?
B: It wasn’t quite like that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene,
but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that
they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan,
nobody believed them. However, there was an element of truth in this.
You don’t regret any of this today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the
effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to
regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I
wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of
giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years,
Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a
conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup
of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism,
which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the
collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation
of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: “Some agitated Moslems”? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic
fundamentalism represents a world menace today...
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West has a global policy in regard to
Islam. That is stupid: There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a
rational manner, without demagoguery or emotionalism. It is the leading
religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in
common among fundamentalist Saudi Arabia, moderate Morocco, militarist
Pakistan, pro-Western Egypt, or secularist Central Asia? Nothing more
than what unites the Christian countries...