Bullshit, here is the picture of Reagan meeting with Shah Massoud, where he called his group freedom fighters. Shah Massoud was anti Taliban and anti Al Queda, and was assassinated for it. He was the reason Afghanistan had not yet turned into a Taiban terrorist shithole.
except that it turned into a Taliban shithole pretty quickly, didn't it?
Come on, Dude, Reagan was probably too fucking senile to know who he was getting us into bed with, but his pals at the CIA, the ones who knew these guys couldn't give shit one about "Democracy" or "Freedom" or "Capitalism", but just wanted to kill Russians for trying to bring modernity into their country.
That's what happened. We didn't just stick our dicks into hornets nest, we actually bred a meaner species of Hornet, in the hope it would torment our enemies.
And then it stung us right in the balls on 9/11/2001.