Diane Rehm does it again. You must hear Zbigniew Brzezinski

11:06 - Zbigniew Brzezinski: "The Choice" (Basic Books)
(Gives the real reasons "why they hate us."

The former national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter takes a look at the strategic challenges America faces and offers alternatives to the Bush foreign policy doctrine.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor of foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University, and author of eight previous books, including "The Grand Failure" and "The Grand Chessboard."

http://www.wamu.org/dr/index.html
(scrool down to March 31 programs-about 20 min.)

sequence of events by forming a partnership with the mujahadeen?

http://www.sunmt.org/carterwar.html

Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs
<"From the Shadows">, that American intelligence services began to aid
the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention.
In this period you were the national security adviser to President
Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid
to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet
army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly
guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979
that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote
a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion
this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Here's the real audio link:

http://www.wamu.org/ram/2004/r2040331.ram

He logically yet firmly presents a case against the Bush Administration's foreign policy. An excellent interview.

And yes to the other poster, he does address Afghanistan.

but they've been crashing my computer lately (damn dell products!!)