| I voted yes, with American support the Afghanis were able to paralyze the Soviet military, making them prisoners of the Afghan cities, the Fedayeen fighters, with the aid of American weapons and supplies VIA the SIS, were able to launch ambush after ambush, not just on Soviet troops, but their armor too. Unlike Viet Nam, where the American forces were able to force their way through pretty much whenever they decided to go somewhere (the problem was they were not ordered to go to the right places early enough in the war to make a difference, and yes, I mean North Vietnam.) the Soviets were repeatedly stopped and forced to turn back, I can't remember the name but one Fedayeen commander in I think in the same mountains Osama is now rumored to hide in, repelled three Soviet attacks, all with armor and air support, and the largest of which consisted of 10,000 troops. He did this with only 1,500 men. Plus, the Soviet military was much more brutal towards the Afghan citizens than the American soldiers in Vietnam, or so I am told. The Soviet military failed because their goal was to bring the revolution to Afghanistan, they could not do this while they were in country and their certainly was no lingering effect afterwords. The government that the Soviets left in power, in a final twist of irony, was expected to only hold Kabul for six weeks against the Taliban, yet they managed to hold out for three years, outliving the Soviet Union.
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Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere.
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