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To: jeltz25

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.


14 posted on 09/07/2013 10:33:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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


47 posted on 09/08/2013 3:28:12 AM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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