On 3/2/2014 4:08 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

Ronald Reagan considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist but supported
Osama bin Laden.


Intellectual dishonesty.

Reagan stepped up a policy initiated by Jimmy Carter in which the USA
supplied funds and equipment to Afghan rebels in their fight with the
Soviet Union who had invaded and occupied Afghanistan.

Reagan's primary purpose was to exhaust the Soviet Union financially as
part of his goal of breaking the economic back of the Soviet Union and
bring the Cold War to a conclusion. Osama bin Laden wasn't a
significant player at the time, if a player at all.

In fact, bin Laden praised Jimmy Carter's writings regarding Israel and
Palestine.