Neocons and jihadis once made music together

Regarding the comment:

Not true-the antecedents to the Taliban jihad lie in the ant-Soviet jihad sponsored by the holy trinity: United States, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. The anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan is when and where many jihadis got their training courtesy of the American taxpayer and Saudi royal family.
Then neo-cons loved jihadis. They were pointed at the godless Soviets.

Eqbal Ahmad, the celebrated Pakistan intellectual, observed in 1998:

The United States and its allies supplied to the Mujahideen an estimated ten billion dollars worth of arms and aid. They also invested in this Jihad the legitimacy of their enormous power, and the luster of their media made glory. On one especially memorable occasion when Afghanistan 's hard line Islamist visited the White House, President Ronald Reagan described them as the Muslim world's "moral equivalent of our founding fathers."

Within a year of the Soviet intervention, Afghanistan was on its way to becoming a pan-Islamic Jihad. Hundreds, eventually thousands, of young Muslims from places as far apart as Algeria and the Philippines, Sudan and Sinkiang traveled to Peshawar and Torkham, received training in the use of arms, and under the strict guidance of various Islamic parties became ideologically ripe and tasted more or less of the Jihad-in-the-path-of-God. The United States government and its vaunted intelligence agency saw in this process a cold war opportunity to pit militant Islam against communism.