Er, no. He created what eventually became the Northern Alliance. The Taliban were the radicals who came after, and threw them out of most of the country.
if that was the price of getting rid of the USSR, it would have been well worth it.
What, from Afghanistan?* Ask the women who went to university under the USSR, and were forbidden to teach their daughters to read under the Taliban. Given the choice between living in Moscow under Stalin and living in Kabul under the Taliban, I know which I'd choose: neither one would give me much freedom, but as a woman, I'd have far more freedom under Stalin than under Taliban. Not that this says much for Stalin: but at least I'd have the freedom to read, write, go out of the house, do my own shopping, go to university, work for a living, marry or not. Not a lot of freedom, but more than the Taliban would have allowed me.
The support of the mojaheddin (a mix of groups, including the bloc we now call the Northern Alliance and the group called the Taliban - which has been around since at least the early 1960s) over the USSR was the most shameful decision made in Carter's presidency. The decision to continue that support was not the most shameful decision of Reagan's presidency: I think we have to put supporting terrorists against a democratically elected government as more shameful than continuing a disgusting policy begun by Reagan's predecessor. I have to admit that deliberately supporting terrorists is more shameful even than invading Grenada to look good or ignoring an epidemic disease because it's only killing people who "don't matter" (though the latter is probably the stupidest decision of Reagan's administration).
Reagan did far more evil than good in his life - even counting 50 B-movies.
*If you mean the myth that Reagan ended the Cold War and brought down the USSR, that is indeed just a story right-wingers tell to avoid having to give thanks and praise to Mikhail Gorbachev. While such a great concatenation of events cannot really be sourced to one individual, when so many people are responsible, Mikhail Gorbachev was the one individual most responsible. Ronald Reagan simply happened to be President of the United States at the time.
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Might as well ask the same about FDR, who armed the USSR, or about JFK, who created Diem.
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What, from Afghanistan?* Ask the women who went to university under the USSR, and were forbidden to teach their daughters to read under the Taliban. Given the choice between living in Moscow under Stalin and living in Kabul under the Taliban, I know which I'd choose: neither one would give me much freedom, but as a woman, I'd have far more freedom under Stalin than under Taliban. Not that this says much for Stalin: but at least I'd have the freedom to read, write, go out of the house, do my own shopping, go to university, work for a living, marry or not. Not a lot of freedom, but more than the Taliban would have allowed me.
The support of the mojaheddin (a mix of groups, including the bloc we now call the Northern Alliance and the group called the Taliban - which has been around since at least the early 1960s) over the USSR was the most shameful decision made in Carter's presidency. The decision to continue that support was not the most shameful decision of Reagan's presidency: I think we have to put supporting terrorists against a democratically elected government as more shameful than continuing a disgusting policy begun by Reagan's predecessor. I have to admit that deliberately supporting terrorists is more shameful even than invading Grenada to look good or ignoring an epidemic disease because it's only killing people who "don't matter" (though the latter is probably the stupidest decision of Reagan's administration).
Reagan did far more evil than good in his life - even counting 50 B-movies.
*If you mean the myth that Reagan ended the Cold War and brought down the USSR, that is indeed just a story right-wingers tell to avoid having to give thanks and praise to Mikhail Gorbachev. While such a great concatenation of events cannot really be sourced to one individual, when so many people are responsible, Mikhail Gorbachev was the one individual most responsible. Ronald Reagan simply happened to be President of the United States at the time.