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[edit] What? Carter was the U.S. President from January 1977 to January 1981, and Afghan-Soviet war ended in 1989. Where does 1993 fit in? This article is full of what can only be called stupid errors.
In 1998, Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, admitted that U.S. sponsorship of the mujahideen was launched by Jimmy Carter, in July 1993, to give the USSR its "Vietnam war". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.135.213 (talk) 18:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I would just like to add my two bits on Brzezinski; he did make the comment, and it is RS having been published in a french periodical, but after considerable research and conversations with some authorities on the topic, it just didn't happen that way. There was some funding in '79, which was through Karachi, and it was humanitarian in nature. We didn't intervene and the best take on the Carter administration's views and policy at the time were best expressed by the CIA's station chief in the movie about Wilson; 'we don't want to turn the cold war into a hot war'. For Zbigniew to make such a claim some 20 years later without either corroborating evidence or witness is certainly not the definitive statement on the topic. Jimmy Carter simply did not and did not attempt to draw the USSR into 'their Viet-Nam' at the time. In retrospect it looks rather clever, but it isn't so. If what Zbigniew said were true, he'd have been more guilty than Oliver North, and would very likely have gotten charged with a crime. Only after the invasion by the USSR would it have been legal to provide weapons and support to insurgents. Jimmy Carter would not have knowingly been involved or allowed his administration to be involved in what Zbigniew describes. Not that I don't admire some of ZB's other accomplishments, but his statement on the Carter administration's involvement in Afghanistan is either wishful thinking or an old man glorifying his accomplishments, nothing more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.152.76.122 (talk) 14:08, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, and I stand corrected; Even ZB is no longer standing by the comments quoted in Le Nouvel Obs., claiming he never said them. This in spite of the fact that he made similar comments to other sources in about the same time frame, raising the possibility that he did in fact make the statements to LNO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.152.76.122 (talk) 15:51, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Better description
"Mujahideen are Muslims who struggle in the path of God." Means jack shit to anyone who doesn't already know something about the subject.
[edit] Disambiguation
Why the disambiguation link to muezzin? The two words are not easily confused; one might as well link to magazine, since that's also an Arabic-derived word with similar initial and terminal sounds. 71.248.115.187 (talk) 01:19, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
