We're weekly public affairs program.

Our guest today is Texas Congressman Charles Wilson.

So why aren't we supplying more things to the freedom fighters?

Well, it's a very good question. I think we should, and I think the Congress is going to insist that we do.

Has the United States provided any aid to the Afghanistan people?

Well, that is a military secret but President Sadat before he was assassinated on

television on worldwide television announced that somebody was purchasing arms from

from Egypt and other countries that had Eastern Block Arms and he wasn't it doesn't take a whole

lot of imagination to figure out who that is. Speak about this luck sun! Speak about this luck sun!

Welcome to blow back!

Welcome to blowback.

I'm Brendan James. I'm Noah Coleman.

And this is season 4 episode 3, The Trap.

Last episode we witnessed the origins of Western meddling in Afghanistan.

In the 1970s the United States and the United Kingdom backed criminals and

religious fanatics inside of the country. Working with Pakistan,

the Shah of Iran, and even the anti-Soviet Chinese communists, this anti-Soviet

axis trained and funded the soon-to-be deadly force of Mujahideen.

But to the surprise of all, including the Soviet Union, in 1978,

the Afghan Communist Party launched a coup, dubbing it the April Revolution.

Afghans in the countryside did not take kindly to the left-wing theoreticians in Kabul.

Communist leader Hafizula Amin was beginning to look more and more like the Afghan

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