[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "False comparison. Nice non-answer. Soviets lost in Afghanistan."

That's a softball a kid could hit. After about twenty years of the war Obama said could be won, we "cut and run" in a most spectacular manner courtesy of the Resident of the White (Powder) House. Soviets lost to goat herders. We lost to goat herders. Yup.

[tlozo]

After about twenty years of the war Obama said could be won, we "cut and run"... Soviets lost to goat herders. We lost to goat herders. Yup.

It helps to read what I was responding to, which is the statement russia cannot lose in Ukraine. Of course we have lost wars, its just idiocy to say russia cannot lose in Ukraine.