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  • **Green Libya (links, texts, translations)**

  • So, if you think if we walked away from this, didn't give them money today,

  • it would be worse for us from the security stand point?

  • I do... We're building a relationship that just did not exist.

  • I said in our last trip when you were with me that we had a huge trust deficit...

  • ...in part because of the United States had - to be fair -

  • ...we had helped to create the problem we're now fighting.

  • How?

  • Because when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan,

  • we had this brilliant idea hat we were gonna come to Pakistan...

  • ...and create a force of Mujahedin,

  • equip them with Stinger missiles and everything else...

  • ...to go after the Soviets inside Afghanistan.

  • And we were successful, the Soviets left Afghanistan,

  • and then we said: "Great! Good bye!"

  • Leaving these trained people...

  • ...who were fanatical in Afganistan and Pakistan,

  • leaving them well armed,

  • creating a mess frankly that at the time we didn't really recognise.

  • We were just so happy to see the Soviet Union fall,

  • and we thought fine, we are OK now,

  • it was gonna be so much better.

  • Now you look back, the people we're fighting today...

  • ...we were supporting in the fight against the Soviets.

**Green Libya (links, texts, translations)**

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