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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks
The ironic part is that America fell for the same trap that they (America) laid out for the Soviets in the late '70s. We trained Osama Bin Laden and worked with him and the Mujahideen as a bulwark to the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan, in an effort to get them involved in a quagmire similar to America's venture in Vietnam. This trap, for all intents and purposes, worked. The Soviets wasted boatloads of money (in a period of economic stagnation for them) and the Afghan population grew to resent them.
Osama Bin Laden used this same strategy to provoke America into coming into the middle east and with the same basic strategy (prolonged guerilla warfare), they were able to drain America's wallet and show just how easily a "modern military" could be stopped.
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I believe the US actually baited the Soviets into invading by supplying the Mujahadeen months before the invasion actually took place. Sort of like if the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a Soviet false flag operation.