Reagan celebrated the mujahideen as moral equals of America’s founders

Evidence

The United States had a vested interest in the conflict and devoted considerable resources, including weapons, training, and money, to Afghanistan in support of the mujahideen. President Ronald Reagan, like Carter before him, viewed the mujahideen as important Cold War allies and lavished praise on their courage, referring to them as “our brothers” and as “the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers” (see image 5). — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general pattern of great powers arming ideological resistance to Cold War rivals; echoes the book’s earlier chapters on Western alliances with Islamist forces when convenient.

Related

• US rhetoric about Islam contradicted its own arming of Islamists (similarity 0.81)