re: #81 Mr Pancakes

The Soviet Union was sent packing with their tail between their legs… we’re just another superpower… certainly we will do that too in their eyes.

The Soviet Union, when they could pretend it was a union, had a different interest in Afghanistan than the US. They had a common border and they had a territorial expansionist opportunity, or so they thought, as they were prone to do.

The US has had interests but never territorial expansion ones, or the constitution of the US would now apply from Japan to Germany.

What we do however have is a misguided naivety that everyone wants to be just like us (and could be) if we kill the bad guys who prevent them from doing so; when what we should just do is kill the bad guys who threaten us, from time to time.