From a memo from National Security Advisor Brzezinski to President Carter:
A SOVIET VIETNAM?
However, we should not be too sanguine about Afghanistan becoming a Soviet Vietnam:
A. The guerrillas are badly organized and poorly led;
B. They have no sanctuary, no organized army, and no central government — all of which North Vietnam had;
C. They have limited foreign support, in contrast to the enormous amount of arms that flowed to the Vietnamese from both the Soviet Union and China;
D. The Soviets are likely to act decisively, unlike the U.S., which pursued in Vietnam a policy of inoculating the enemy. As a consequence, the Soviets might be able to assert themselves effectively, and [in] world politics nothing succeeds like success, whatever the moral aspects.
Source:
https://sites.temple.edu/immerman/brezenski-memoranda-to-carter-on-soviet-intervention-in-afghanistan/
We the People helped sow death and destruction on Afghanistan to get back at the Soviet Union for all the evil they perpetrated on the planet. In the process of destroying a fledgling democratic nation that had voted in a socialist leader, we got ourselves Reagan and Poppy Bush's New World Order (including Bush longtime family friend, Osama bin Laden) that led to Baby Doc Bush's post 9-11's a Global War on Terror.
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