[ansel12]

In retrospect we should’ve aided the Soviets in the 1980s, rather than countered them.

I hope that was a joke.

[ScottinVA]

The joke... and a very sick one... is the notion something good will some emerge from that unending quagmire our troops are being forced to slog through.

I would much rather have seen Afghanistan as a Soviet SSR than the irreparable mess it is today.