Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot
Um, that's a different war. US support for the mujahideen helped cost the Soviets roughly 15,000 soldiers and led to a costly defeat for the USSR. Nothing inevitable about the rise of the Taliban, the coming of Al Qaeda, the US war, etc., all of which happened years later. — PolitiTweet.org
Hayden Daniel @HaydenWDaniel
$2.3 trillion and over 2,400 dead Americans sure was "effective" at combating Islamic extremism https://t.co/fOigw1Mj2a
