Blog post #4

I am currently reading Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile. It tells the story of the senator Charlie Wilson and the U.S. role in the Afghan-Russian war. This book really explained some of the islamic extremist problems in the middle east and the United states previous foreign policy. One of the other stories this book tells is how the united states helped radicalize Islamic fundamentalists and how our involvement in Afghanistan led to 9/11. The US supported the Afghans Jihad and supplied them with millions of dollars. Once the felt empowered since they had had forced one of the most powerful countries in the world out of their country, the extremists thought they could do it again and are now trying to destroy us. I mean they didn't probably think just that but some of the leaders of terrorist groups that fought in the guerilla war felt like they had power and passed there extremist ideas on. This book really helped me understand why there is so much violence in the region and it was really interesting. I am very glad that I read this book