He funded and armed the Mujahideen in Operation Cyclone though - which has literally caused endless trouble with the rise of radical Islam. So it wasn't all "world peace".
At the time the dictatorship back home was also very much in the "good guys" book according to the USA
Starting to think they are just shit a selecting who to put in that book
Fuck Operation Condor
In the late 90s, Zbigniew said that it was worth Al Qaeda’s rise by saying something like it was better to end the Soviet Union than to have a few pissed off Muslim terrorists.
Of course, Zbigniew’s partner David Rockefeller was accused of propping up Carter as the Trilateral’s candidate. There’s derisive articles about it in the NY Times.
The Mujahideen are NOT responsible for the rise of radical Islam. The Mujahideen have fought WITH the US since they were formed, and against Russia, the Taliban and Al Qaeda and other radical influences in Afghanistan, as they are continuing to do to this day.
The Mujahideens the West supported became the Northern Alliance. The NA allowed girls to go to school. The NA was also allied with Iran and didn't persecute the Shia population of Afghanistan.
Unfortunately the NA lost the later Afghan civil war to the Saudi/Pakistan backed Taliban.
Also the rise of radical Islam has more to do with Arab countries and Israel than a Central Asian country that is culturally and geopolitically more connected to India than the Middle East.
Not in that area of the world. The Deobandi school is an indigenous South-West Asian school, a radical version of that was wed to a Pakistan going off the rails under Zia and we see the results today. It is a parallel to the Saudi-radical Wahhabi convergence of the time, but still an entirely local development.