Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US military bases in Middle East

Exactly, America is still a democracy, albeit a flawed one. People and companies make choices against the government even when the government protects them.

Guess that your Google is broken so start here: From Wikopedia: "Key proponents of the initial program were Texas Congressman [Charlie Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson_(Texas_politician)); [Michael G. Vickers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Vickers), a young CIA paramilitary officer; and [Gust Avrakotos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Avrakotos), the CIA's regional head, who developed a close relationship with Wilson. Their strategy was to provide a broad mix of weapons, tactics, and logistics, along with training programs, to enhance the rebels' ability to fight a guerilla war against the Soviets. Initially, to avoid detection of U.S. involvement, the program supplied the rebels only with Soviet-made weaponry. This plan was enabled by the tacit support of Israel, which had captured large stockpiles of Soviet-made weaponry during the [Yom Kippur War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War) and agreed to sell them to the CIA clandestinely, as well as [Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt), which had recently modernized its army with weapons purchased from Western nations, funneling the older Soviet-made arms to the mujahideen.[^(\[37\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone#cite_note-37)[^(\[38\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone#cite_note-38) After 1985, as the Reagan administration announced that it would support anti-Soviet resistance movements globally (in what is now known as the [Reagan Doctrine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine)), there was no longer a need to obfuscate the origin of the weaponry; Pentagon senior official, [Michael Pillsbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pillsbury), successfully advocated providing U.S.-made weaponry, including large numbers of [Stinger missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger), to the Afghan resistance.[^(\[39\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone#cite_note-heymann-39)^(")