[Recon Dad]

The major misconception the Arabs have been operating under is that it was they that pushed the Russians out of Afghanistan. They all got the impression that all they had to do is stay at it and the America will pull a USSR and bug out of Iraq. I hope this will not be proved true in the later case, but in the first case it was the U.S.A. that made it possible, they were nothing but targets until we gave them the means to push the Russians out.

[marktwain]

The major misconception the Arabs have been operating under is that it was they that pushed the Russians out of Afghanistan. They all got the impression that all they had to do is stay at it and the America will pull a USSR and bug out of Iraq. I hope this will not be proved true in the later case, but in the first case it was the U.S.A. that made it possible, they were nothing but targets until we gave them the means to push the Russians out.

Their answer would be that Allah just used the Americans as his way to put the means of pushing the Russians out into their hands, and that he will find a way to do the same with their "Jihad" against the Americans.

Never underestimate the ability of a people to rationalize to a conclusion that they want to make, against all evidence.