To: kearnyirish2; Cronos
It was to do to the USSR what they did to us in Vietnam.
I have read the accounts of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. There is a book called “The Forgotten War”. I read it in the 90’s and remember thinking “We armed a bunch of people who will kill us!”
52 posted on
07/13/2012 7:16:37 PM PDT by
redgolum
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To: redgolum; kearnyirish2
Well, I was a pre-teen in the 80s, so can't remember the reasoning, but I think it was very, very short-sighted.
The Soviet arming of Vietnam didn't have Vietnamese firing back at the Soviets....
53 posted on
07/14/2012 9:57:15 AM PDT by
Cronos
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