Shodan, this board is about dispelling ignorance, not propagating it. Not even the most whacked out conspiracy theorist would spout the sort of rubbish you just posted. To say that the 9-11 attacks had anything to do with the 1991 gulf war is just…stupid.
I don’t know what policies Reeder was referring to, but it might have something to do with these policies:
"In Freedom’s name America made sure that any
possibility of secular democratic reform in the Middle
East was shut off. Mount a coup against Mossadegh in
the mid-1950s, as the CIA did, and you end up with the
Ayatollah Khomeni 25 years later. Mount a coup against
Kassim in Iraq, as the CIA did, and you get the
agency’s man, Saddam Hussein.
What about Afghanistan? In April of 1978 a populist
coup overthrew the government of Mohammed Daoud,
who had formed an alliance with the man the U.S. had
installed in Iran, Reza Pahlavi, aka the Shah. The new
Afghan government was led by Noor Mohammed
Taraki, and the Taraki administration embarked on land
reform, hence an attack on the opium-growing feudal
estates. Taraki went to the UN, where he managed to
raise loans for crop substitution for the poppy fields.
Taraki also tried to bear down on opium production in
the border areas held by fundamentalists, since the latter were using opium revenues to finance attacks on
Afghanistan’s central government, which they regarded
as an unwholesome incarnation of modernity that
allowed women to go to school and outlawed arranged
marriages and the bride price. Accounts began to
appear in the Western press along the lines of this from The Washington Post, to the effect that the mujahedin
liked to “torture victims by first cutting off their noses, ears and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another.”
At that time the mujahedin were not only getting
money from the CIA but from Libya’s Muammar
Qaddafi, who sent them $250,000. In the summer of
1979 the U.S. State Dept. produced a memo making it
clear how the U.S. government saw the stakes, no
matter how modern-minded Taraki might be or how
feudal the muj. It’s another passage Hentoff might read
to the grandkids: “The United States’ larger
interest…would be served by the demise of the
Taraki-Amin regime, despite whatever set backs this
might mean for future social and economic reforms in
Afghanistan. The overthrow of the DRA [Democratic
Republic of Afghanistan] would show the rest of the
world, particularly the Third World, that the Soviets’
view of the socialist course of history being inevitable is not accurate.”
Taraki was killed by Afghan army officers in
September 1979. Hafizullah Amin, educated in the U.S.,
took over and began meeting regularly with U.S.
embassy officials at a time when the U.S. was arming
Islamic rebels in Pakistan. Fearing a fundamentalist,
U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan, the Soviets invaded
in force in December 1979.
Robert Fisk wrote in the Independent on Sunday, “I
was working for The Times in 1980, and just south of
Kabul I picked up a very disturbing story. A group of
religious mujahedin fighters had attacked a school
because the communist regime had forced girls to be
educated alongside boys. So they had bombed the
school, murdered the head teacher’s wife and cut off her husband’s head. It was all true. But when The Times
ran the story, the Foreign Office complained to the
foreign desk that my report gave support to the
Russians. Of course. Because the Afghan fighters were
the good guys. Because Osama bin Laden was a good
guy. Charles Douglas-Home, then editor of The Times,
would always insist that Afghan guerrillas were called
‘freedom fighters’ in the headline. There was nothing you couldn’t do with words.” (3)
How the U.S. contributed to the rise of dictatorships
and terrorism in the Moslem world
Syria, 1948 - The U.S. helps to overthrow
national rulers; Syria becomes terrorist state.
Iran, 1954 - The U.S. overthrows nationalist
Mossadegh, puts the shah in power, his
corruption and oppression set the table for the
rise of fundamentalism resulting in the 1979
Islamic revolution.
Egypt, 1955 - After the U.S. tried to kill
nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser he turned to the
Soviets.
Iraq, 1958 - The U.S. puts Col. Kassem in
power, who then turns into an anti-American
dictator.
Indonesia, 1967 - The U.S. overthrows Sukarno
leading to the army and mobs killing 500,000
Sukarno supporters.
Libya, 1969 - The U.S. helps a young officer,
Moammar Khadafy, seize power in Libya, then
tries to kill him in 1986.
Iraq, 1975 - The U.S. helps Saddam Hussein (a
former CIA operative) seize power. In 1979, the
U.S. encourages Saddam to invade Iran in an
effort to crush Iran's Islamic revolution. Over
700,000 people die in the war.
http://www.libertocracy.com/Transfer/Articles/USPolicy/Taliban.htm