There is a new campaign within the foreign policy establishment in Washington for arming Ukraine’s military to better confront the Russian-backed separatist forces. There is also a revival in media reports of questions over the history of leading Saudi figures sending funds to Al Qaeda. And in that coincidence lay a certain irony: Saudis funding Osama bin Laden and his network in Afghanistan had been not only acceptable in Washington, but actively encouraged by the United States in the late 1980s.
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