Reddit reviews The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
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> We propped up Osama Bin Laden up until he got smart and turned on us.
Please read a book about this, I beseech you. Nothing is worse than internet pop history/international relations. I'd suggest these:
https://www.amazon.com/Bin-Ladens-Arabian-American-Century/dp/0143114816
https://www.amazon.com/Osama-bin-Laden-Know-History/dp/0743278917/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+bin+laden+i+know&qid=1556584133&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr
https://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/1400030846
Bin Laden wasn't supported by the US, not because the US is a good guy (it's not, no country is despite redditors wishing it wasn't so), but because they just didn't care about him and he was already rich. There were a few hundred Afghan Arabs as opposed to tens of thousands of mujahideen. The CIA supported the latter, they just didn't give a shit about the former.
This is an excellent book if you're interested in learning more about the Bin Ladens.
Check out The Seven Sisters and The King of Oil.
Also, check out The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.