Squad Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was sharply criticized for claiming on Sunday that the US had supported the Taliban against occupying Soviet military forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, an impossibility as the Taliban only came into existence a decade later.
“That’s what this is: the horrible consequences of endless war and failed US policy going back to the 1980s when we backed the Taliban against the Soviets. Innocent people suffer the horrors of war while political leaders and arms-dealing corporations sit back and make billions,” Tlaib tweeted.
In response, many people pointed out on Twitter that the Taliban was founded in September 1994 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Human rights lawyer and NGO Monitor legal advisor Ann Herzberg replied: “Not surprised that someone so ignorant about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is equally clueless about Afghanistan.”
Tlaib may have been confusing the Taliban with the 1980s Afghan mujahideen, a catch-all term for various disparate Islamist rebel groups united by their fight against the Soviet military, some of whom were supported and funded by the United States. One of their leaders was future infamous Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.
After the Soviet Union left Afghanistan in 1989, the various mujahideen groups dispersed as the civil war in the country continued on, with the Taliban emerging several years later.
Other voices accused Tlaib of creating fiction, including New York Times journalist Matthew Rosenberg.
“The Taliban did not exist in the 1980s, it did not fight the Soviet Union and it was not backed by the United States. You could fill a library with books about American screw ups in Afghanistan. No need to rely on fictions,” Rosenberg tweeted.
Middle East analyst Seth Frantzman questioned whether Tlaib had taken the time to learn the “complex history” of Afghanistan.
“It wasn’t the Taliban in the 1980s…if learning the complex history is too much time for members of Congress, they even have movies about this, like Charlie Wilson’s War and Rambo III,” he tweeted.
Journalist, and author of a new book on Afghanistan, Wesley Morgan did not mince words, calling what Tlaib had written a “repeating [of an] ignorant myth.”
And terrorism analyst Michael S. Smith II castigated Tlaib for her tweet’s tone-deaf lack of sympathy for what will now happen to the women of Afghanistan under a Taliban regime.
“Setting aside the fact that the history is all wrong (See when the Taliban was formed): This probably won’t age well when it becomes very clear how Joe Biden’s decision has affected the lives of millions of women in particular,” he said.
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escort her to the border along with omar and keith ellison with a ticket to kabul.
SEND BOTH HER and Ilan omar, there, ONE WAY… Gifts of the US people, to the taliban!
HELL< add in AOC too!
and–
hillary
pelosi
harris
stacy abrahms
maxie-
Rashida—you are a mouth without a brain. You’re so anti-American—why don’t YOU go join the Taliban?
For all we know, she’s ALREADY A secret memeber!
As much as I despise Ignorant Rashida Tlaib. She is correct. We the U.S. provided weapons for Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden and he used our own weapons against us.
Tlaib may have been confusing the Taliban with the 1980s Afghan mujahideen, a catch-all term for various disparate Islamist rebel groups united by their fight against the Soviet military, some of whom were supported and funded by the United States. One of their leaders was future infamous Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.
So we the Democrat Party ruled U.S. does it again. We just armed the Taliban.
This is the same as with Viet Nam – Innocent people suffer the horrors of war
while political leaders and arms-dealing corporations sit back and make billions,”.
When you pump an area full of foreign aliens like Biden is doing in the rest of the nation, radical America haters like this witch is what you get to represent the residents of that community. The “democracy” as per the design of democrats.
Oh, Rashida, you make things up to suit your own needs. Rashida, how do you spell “airhead”? Please, please Rashida, look at yourself in the mirror, when you spell “airhead” and you will know what an “airhead” looks like!
backpacker:
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
*“Saudi Arabia and its coalition partner in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) transferred US-made weapons to al-Qaeda-linked groups. “
*The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan as an integral Cold War struggle, and the CIA provided assistance to anti-Soviet mujahideen rebels through the Pakistani intelligence services in a program called Operation Cyclone.
* After the Soviet invasion in December 1979, which was a surprise to Carter, the CIA expanded the program, code-named Operation Cyclone, and began providing weapons along with money to the mujahideen through the Pakistani intelligence services.
Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken. More than $20 billion in U.S. funds was funneled into the country to train and arm Afghan resistance groups.
AND all of it, was immortalized by that Tom hanks film, Charlie wilson’s war..
Never let the facts of history spoil what makes a good narrative putting the United States in a bad light. To her it really didn’t matter the name of the group Mujhadeen, Taliban, Isis, Al Quiada, the important thing was they ousted the United States. She has made no secret that in such conflicts she will side with her Muslim faith against everything else be ie Christian, Jew, Israel, in this case she was cheering on the Taliban just like Muslim workers in the Pentegon did on (/11!
Apparently, she read your post and gave you one star. LOL!
COMMENT Do you remember when the Palestinians were cheering in the streets, and celebrating after 9/11 ?
I remember the ******** celebrating in the streets of Hoboken/Jersey City that day and it was on NYC TV stations until the word went out to quit showing that joyous celebration. And then it was all denied…of course. It is not who we are.
I remember seeing MORE than just THOSE folks, dancing. IIRC there were video clips, of folks HERE in certain cities (DEARBORN) celebrating too!
This disgusting Racist Palestinian woman should NOT be in our Congress ! She hates America, and her ONLY allegiance is to the Palestinians. When she was sworn in, she draped a Palestinian flag around her NOT an American Flag. She HATES Israel as well and REFUSES to recognize it as a country. Putting ignorant, and racist people like HER in our American Congress will help to DESTROY America !
she will have to wait her turn -biden seems to want to be the first to put america last-
Send her to Kabul to advocate for Women’s rights. make her the ambassador. What the heck, what could we loose?
Along with that other mudslime lover, OMAR!
This article is titled wrong saying “Ignorant”, which gives the 4 eyed pig face some credibility, which she really doesn’t have. Ignorance can be cured through some REAL education. Tlaib is not ignorant, she’s stupid. Better chance of finding a cure for terminal cancer than curing stupid. And stupid is very contagious. Just look at the rest of the “squad.”
Very true. ONE CAN Cure ignorance. ONE CANNOT CURE evilness.