[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.

[ansel12]

Oh, nonsense, we didn’t create Bin Laden, and if you would prefer to have the Soviet Union back, and whatever they would have done or wiped out during the last 30 years after winning in Afghanistan, then you are just insane.

Doesn’t anyone remember what the free world faced in 1983. at least what was left of it?