When trying to explain how the CIA created Al Qaeda to people who aren’t in the know about all the crazy things our government does I ask the person I am conversing with if they remember Rambo III and how Rambo trained the Afghani’s to fight the Russians.
Nearly every time I get an excited response about how awesome that move was, especially the parts with the bow and arrow explosives and the people on riding their horses and taking out the Russian tanks with Molotov cocktails.
I then go on to explain how while the movie was a dramatization that exact situation happened in real-life, except in the real-life version there where many, many CIA and other special forces operatives involved and unlike in the movie they weren’t abandoned by the US government – instead they were supplied boat loads of weapons, trainings, money you name it.
Then their jaws drop as I tell them the kicker – In the real life version of events those men Rambo were training and leading into battle were Al Qaeda and the Taliban and their leader, well that was Osama Bin Laden.
Normally that will wake people up and the discussion will turn political wondering how the terrorists we trained to fight the Russians ended up fighting us, but that is a subject of this article.
Off the silver screen our Rambo Star is just as nearly as patriotic as he is on the screen, at least when it comes to words.
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