Pakistani intelligence officials began privately lobbying the U.S. and its allies to send materiel assistance to the Islamist rebels. In March 1979, the “CIA sent several covert action options relating to Afghanistan to the SCC [Special Coordination Committee]” of the United States National Security Council. At a 30 March meeting, U.S. Department of Defense representative Walter B. Slocombe “asked if there was value in keeping the Afghan insurgency going, ‘sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire?’”[81][82]
President Carter signed two presidential findings in July 1979 permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., “cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters”) and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA, which (in the words of Steve Coll) "seemed at the time a small beginning.
Soviet-Afghan war.
Right the fight with the mujaheddin, where the US famously had no role in whatsoever.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/robert-fisk-osama-bin-laden-interview-sudan-1993-b1562374.html
and that’s from natopedia too.
Also, Afghanistan isn’t even part of the middle east too lmao, so it’s wrong twice
It’s all just islamophobia