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Entry: Kosovo, Russia, and the Last Grasps of American Unipolarity Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/kosovo_and_the_last_grasps_of_american_unipolarity#18469 Post contents: Hungary was not attacked by the Soviet Union. Armed Hungarian rightists rebelled against the government, which called in Soviet troops to help put down the revolt. Nor was Czechoslovakia “attacked”. It was occupied because the government had refused to break off the negotiations with the World Bank and the IMF that would have undermined the Comecon economy. How many bombs fell on Prague? How many Czechs were killed? In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998, Jimmy Carter’s former security advisor Zbiegnew Brzezinski boasted that the US had financed, trained and armed 20,000-30,000 Islamic fundamentalists (among other things with Stinger missiles) and sent them into Afghanistan to topple the government 6 months before there were any Soviet troops in the country. Funding was channelled through the bin Laden family, including Osama. Brzezinski’s claim is confirmed in ex-CIA head Robert Gates’ memoirs, “Out of the Shadows”. Details of the US recruitment of the fundamentalists (in cooperation with the UK, Egypt, Israel, the Pakistani secret service and China) are given in Unholy Wars, by John Cooley, Pluto Press, 1999. The only way for the government in Kabul to deal with the threat was to ask for help from the Soviets, which was precisely what Brzezinski and William Casey had hoped for. The Kabul government was attempting to break the hold of the feudal landlords and had launched policies that included cancelling peasant debt to landlords, abolishing usury, by which the peasants were virtually enslaved, building schools and medical clinics, redistributing land to rural families, emancipating and educating the female half of the population and outtlawing child marriage – among other things. Such policies were anathema to the Moujahedeen and the CIA. It is absurd to equate the Soviet “attacks” on Hungary and Czechoslovakia with Nazi aggression or with US attacks on Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Yugoslavia or Iraq, to name a few criminal aggressions. Sent at: 2008 07 06