Кстати, во что вычитал седня:

The real story behind this was that the US had secretly begun a programme of covert aid to the Afghan guerrillas six months before the Soviets invaded. Former CIA director and current Minister of Defense Robert Gates in his 1996 memoir From the Shadows revealed that peace-loving president Carter approved a secret $500 million aid programme designed to counter the Soviet support to the pro-Soviet regime that had overthrown the dictator Mohamed Dawoud Khan (who had just overthrown his cousin, King Mohamed Nadir Shah) in Kabul.

According to Gates, at a meeting on 30 March, 1979, Under-Secretary of Defense Walter Slocumbe suggested "there was value in keeping the Afghan insurgency going, 'sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire'." Carter, who authorised the covert programme on 3 July, 1979, today explains that it was definitely "not my intention" to inspire a Soviet invasion. Was this also a conspiracy, with naïve Jimmy a dupe? LHOP or MHOP? Either way, it created the foundations for the greatest military build-up that the world has ever seen, as Reagan won a landslide election on the promise to deposit the SU in history's rubbish bin. Oh, it also created Al-Qaeda.
http://ericwalberg.com/index.php?opt...lism&Itemid=95

Так что сами виноваты =)

з.ы. а еще на mp.net тема интересная появилась: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...ead.php?t=5079