Irony of ironies, it was our material support to Afghanistan in the Soviet invasion that quite literally created bin Laden. Irony of ironies, this is actually

Irony of ironies, it was our material support to Afghanistan in the Soviet invasion that quite literally created bin Laden. Irony of ironies, this is actually a deeply Western-centric point of view which assumes that everything that happens in the world does so as a result of actions performed by its own hand -- and that the people in affected countries have no agency, goals or vision of their own.