Don’t forget that at the time, the Soviets were a expansionist superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. (Yes, they were rotten at the core, but we didn’t know that.) It seems reasonable to believe that, assuming he had intel on bad they were, Reagan saw dealing with the Muj as the lesser of two evils.
I remember pictures of those booby-trapped teddy bears
that the Russians would drop for kids to play with.
At the time it made me mad.I approved at the time of us
sending those Stingers to take out the Hinds
Don`t thnk we really knew at the time how really bad the
muslims were