[Destro]

I hold that theory too. The USSR did not lose the Afghan war. Their man (Was it Najibullah?) stayed on in poewer in Kabul well after the Russians left. The Mujahadeen never took Kabul and never knocked out Russia's allies from the war.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Well, Najibullah's head is lying in some desolate, unmarked grave somewhere in Afghanistan, and there are no Soviet troops left in Kabul.

I'm not saying that his theory is completely invalid. I mean, if Congress hadn't cut off funding for the South Vietnamese government during the Ford administration, I'm sure that they could have held off the communists for an indefinite amount of time.

In fact, it might have evolved into a North/South Korea situation, where the two sides eventually came to an uneasy armistice and a clear demarcation of borders.

Unfortunately, that never happened and we are left to deal with the consequences.

All I'm trying to convey is the fact that some of Bodansky's theories don't pass the smell test.

Even though I respect his work establishing the connection between the Sudanese and Iranian governments and the rise of UBL's Al Qaeda network, he wasn't the only terrorism expert-or even the most prominent-to have revealed these ties prior to Semptember 11th, 2001.