chunga1 -- for the umpteenth time -- whether you like it or will ever acknowledge it or not, the truth of the matter is that we (Jimmy Carter, no less) stood up and turned loose the mujahadeen before the Soviets came in, precisely in order to (as it turned out, successfully) goad the Soviets to come in to Afghanistan-- (items linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=49741724 and preceding and following
and the rest is, as they say, history -- . . .
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." from John Philpot Curran, Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790