According to U.S. law, Organizations accepting funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development must certify that tax dollars will not be used to advance religion. The certification states that AID "will finance only programs that have a secular purpose. . . . AID-financed activities cannot result in religious indoctrination of the ultimate beneficiaries."
Financially supporting radical islamic indoctrination is against U.S. Law.
Because it backfires. Badly.
And you accuse ME of Anti-Americanism?
Bin Laden was funded by Brezinski and the Carter administration in an effort to return a measure of autonomy to the people of Afghanistan. Bin Laden and his muslim fighters were at that time legitimate members of a potentially free Afghan society. It is not inconsistent to expect that Bin laden and other emergent leaders would not establish the kind of radically oppressive society that emerged under that Taliban. His mania ultimately turned him from freedom fighter to pretentious caliphate. Once again, he is getting consistent US policy defending individual human autonomy aimed at destroying his vision.
The cute Rumsfeld photo that lefties so adore fails to note that the agricultural credits and pro-Saddam gestures in the early 1980s were as a result of Saddam's cooperation in the capture of terrorists wanted for various attacks against Americans in Lebannon and elsewhere. Here again, we see the apparent consistency of American policy seeking cooperation in fighting terror. The minor carrots offered Saddam were not a complicity with later gas attacks on the Kurds as Leftists like to propagandize.