Who said this?

Áine on April 19th, 2007 filed in Politics, Quotations

“Throughout the world … its agents, client states and satellites are on the defensive — on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They’re doing so on almost every continent populated by man — in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America … [They are] freedom fighters.”

Answer appears after the jump.

This glowing praise of the murderous exploits of today’s supporters of arch-terrorist Osama bin Laden and his Taliban collaborators, and their holy war against the “evil empire”, was issued by US President Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985, in a speech to the National Conservative Political Action Conference.

Additional Reading: William Blum’s “AFGHANISTAN 1979-1992 America’s Jihad“

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