For almost ten years, the Soviet Union waged a hopeless battle in Afghanistan, much like the United States is doing in that country today (with Iraq added on for good measure). They fought them day-after-day. The massive Soviet military machine carpet bombed the Afghans back into the stoneage for nine relentless years, but they kept coming back to match the Soviets move-for-move. They proved that a small, ineffective army could take on a well-trained and readily-supplied military super power. How could this be, though? Through pure determination and the unyielding meddlesome nature of other nations into the affairs of Soviet occupation. It wasn't a war about mere power, because the Soviets would have won easily; it was a war based on the lives and will power of a single people propped up by nations like the United States and other outside renegade forces.
In 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from it's own Vietnam; it was a world power defeated by a rag-tag rebel army with a depleted treasury. What lessons has the United States learned from its friends the Soviets? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are proof that little was learned from the Soviet's fiasco in the 1980s.
The US was a partner of people like Osama bin Laden while he was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. We supplied him with money and arms. I wonder who is helping the terrorists today against the US? Could it be our friends the Chinese who are paying for our war in Iraq at the moment? I think probably. Could it be the Russians giving us a little pay back for nine years of hell in Afghanistan? I'd say, maybe. Could it be the princes of Saudi Arabia? I'd say all indications point to yes. The truth is only time will tell.
In a few years, when we our military is badly broken and our nation bankrupt, who will come pick our bones clean? ......
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