...which has driven US foreign policy for the last fifty years.21 He answered with a series of questions: "What is most important to the history of the world?...The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? A few crazed Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?" (cited in Ali...

...September 1 1, about the United Stales having given arms and advice to future terrorists: "What is more important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?"" What follows?...

...media. The truest reflection of the US attitude was uttered by Zbignew Brzezinski, when he observed: "What is most important to the history of the world?...the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?" During the Cold War, Pakistan's...

...fundamentalists and giving arms and advice to future terrorists, Brzezinski replied: "What is more important to the history of the world ... the Taliban...liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?"5 By 1997 the Soviet Union had been dead for six years. A new world had emerged in which the United...

...whether he regretted the Carter Administration's arming and advising of Islamic radicals in Afghanistan: "What is most important to the history of the world?...the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the Migration of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" — see David G>rn, "Anthrax, Mujaheddin...

...was asked whether he regretted having helped form the Taliban regime. He said that he had no regrets: "What is most important to the history of the world?...The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? A few crazed Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe or the end of the Cold War?" (All 2002, p....

...Islamic fundamentalism and providing arms and training to future terrorists, he answered: What is more important to the history of the world? The Taliban...the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? "Now," he told President Carter...

...any doubts in his mind. As he asked rhetorically in an interview with a French news magazine in 1998, "What is most important to the history of the world?...the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" Le Nouvel observateur, January...

...President Carter: we now have the opportunity of giving the USSR its own Vietnam War ... What is more important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? A few crazed Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?10 Yet, this support...