Chomsky’s Lie: “the CIA… recruited radical Islamists from many countries and organized them into a military and terrorist force that Reagan anointed ‘the moral equivalent of the founding fathers,’ joining Jonas Savimbi and similar dignitaries in that Pantheon.”.

Wars of Terror,” New Political Science, March 2003.

The Truth: Reagan was referring to the Nicaraguan Contras, not “radical Islamists.”

New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 1985.