I stopped reading at "the US began providing Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden and his friends."

This blatantly shop-worn lie of America haters is hardly worth responding to, but for the benefit of the less informed among us, the Afgan resistance consisted of non-Arabic Afghan native-born freedom fighters, and the Arabic Taliban which included Osama bin Laden and his gaggle of foreign mercenaries.

The US supported ONLY the non-Arabic native-born freedom fighters, and it most definitely did not support bin Laden or his Arabic mercenaries.