United States | News & Politics

7109 readers

544 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

289

Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” (theintercept.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

81 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The Carter administration is responsible for helping start one of the most devastating proxy wars in recent history, by arming anti Soviet extremists in Afghanistan in July 1979. Whatever happened to those extremists, one might wonder?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and became the world's #1 heroin exporters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Wonder whatever happened to this guy that the USA helped arm? Did he do anything significant since then?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It's the Northern Alliance that were the big opium producers, under US occupation. The Taliban actually banned and restricted it both before the invasion and after re-taking power.