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WikiLeaks released more than half a million U.S. diplomatic cables from the year 1979.
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2501340" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>"If any year could be said to be the ‘year zero’ of our modern era, 1979 is it,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/pressrelease/?c8" target="_blank">said</a> in a press release."</p><p></p><p>In a very real sense, Assange is correct. This was also the year, <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islamic_militancy_2031#western_support_for_islamic_militancy_2031" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>July 3rd 1979</strong></span></a> to be exact, that the United States crossed the Rubicon when then President Carter issued a then secret directive ordering US aid through covert means to radical Islamic forces that would become the operative means of global Islamic terrorism and radical jihadism. Here we are almost 40 years later and as a result our world has completely changed as a result. As a sidenote, Reagan is often and conveniently blamed for starting what we know today as radical jihadism and Reagan did amp it up to new levels but Democrat apologists quite often, for convenience sake, forget their own history and for political advantage blame Reagan when the brunt of the blame is something they own.</p><p></p><p>Adding to the pressure, on <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a122679memotocarter#a122679memotocarter" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>December 26, 1979</strong></span></a> President Carter green lights Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program which introduced the region to nuclear weapons and thus a problem we now face in a potentially vast expanded form.</p><p></p><p>One can read more of the entire 1979' timeline at <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a122679memotocarter" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>History Commons</strong></span></a> but should also consider <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2897792/Operation_Cyclone_1979-1989_A_Brief_Analysis_of_the_U.S._Involvement_in_the_Soviet-Afghan_War" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Operation Cyclone</strong></span></a> of William Blum's <span style="color: #000000"><a href="https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/afghanistan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>exposé</strong></span></a> </span>of the events of that era.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2501340, member: 2189"] "If any year could be said to be the ‘year zero’ of our modern era, 1979 is it,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange [URL='https://wikileaks.org/plusd/pressrelease/?c8']said[/URL] in a press release." In a very real sense, Assange is correct. This was also the year, [URL='http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islamic_militancy_2031#western_support_for_islamic_militancy_2031'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]July 3rd 1979[/B][/COLOR][/URL] to be exact, that the United States crossed the Rubicon when then President Carter issued a then secret directive ordering US aid through covert means to radical Islamic forces that would become the operative means of global Islamic terrorism and radical jihadism. Here we are almost 40 years later and as a result our world has completely changed as a result. As a sidenote, Reagan is often and conveniently blamed for starting what we know today as radical jihadism and Reagan did amp it up to new levels but Democrat apologists quite often, for convenience sake, forget their own history and for political advantage blame Reagan when the brunt of the blame is something they own. Adding to the pressure, on [URL='http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a122679memotocarter#a122679memotocarter'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]December 26, 1979[/B][/COLOR][/URL] President Carter green lights Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program which introduced the region to nuclear weapons and thus a problem we now face in a potentially vast expanded form. One can read more of the entire 1979' timeline at [URL='http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a122679memotocarter'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]History Commons[/B][/COLOR][/URL] but should also consider [URL='http://www.academia.edu/2897792/Operation_Cyclone_1979-1989_A_Brief_Analysis_of_the_U.S._Involvement_in_the_Soviet-Afghan_War'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Operation Cyclone[/B][/COLOR][/URL] of William Blum's [COLOR=#000000][URL='https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/afghanistan'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]exposé[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/COLOR]of the events of that era. [/QUOTE]
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