[ansel12]

It was also a mistake to arm the mujaheddin against the Soviets.

You have got to be kidding, you would rather have the Soviet Union back and perhaps WWIII having been fought and lost by now, and us and Europe being destroyed?

[BBell]

I'm not kidding. Most of the trouble we are having now stems from us giving the mujaheddin modern shoulder launched missiles and other weaponry. Like it or not we created bin laden and Al-Qaeda.

IMHO the Soviet Union would have collapsed anyway and I don't believe there would have been a WWIII as the Soviets were not hell bent on destroying the world or themselves. Now think about who is hell bent on destroying us and the rest of the world.