VIOLENT JIHAD - A REAGAN LEGACY?

Believe it or not, it was Ronald W. Reagan who began the process of educating Afghan children in Wahhabism. That is the radical version of Islam that fuels the jihadists behind terror attacks worldwide.

This is yet another story not widely reported by the so-called liberal media. But in our efforts to help the Taliban defeat the Soviets at the end of the Cold War, virulently "anti infidel" textbooks were paid for by US tax dollars and shipped to Afghanistan.

As a nation, we should really start paying attention to these periodic reminders that if we would just mind our own business, and keep our noses out of the affairs of other nations, maybe the anti-terror strategy of our neighbor to the north, Canada, would be all we need to protect America as well.

Note that Canada has had no terror attacks since 09/11.

http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3453

Looking back, it seems unbelievable that the U.S. government would ever hatch such a scheme. But during the presidency of Ronald Reagan — when all vision was still focused on the Cold War — the United States got itself into the business of sponsoring militant Islamic schools for Afghanistan, then a nation under the influence of the Soviet Union. Martin Schram explains.