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the insurgents got ahold of (US supplied) surface to air missiles which wound up denying the soviets effective air cover for their ground troops.
With these new, more modern missiles in the hands of the Taliban, what will happen when we start losing a helicopter or two every week?
I don't think I am mis-remembering that the war went pretty well for the Soviets for the first couple years. Their hundred-thousand man army covered the country in days, they propped up their puppet, and the big worry was that they were so successful that they might move on to take the oil fields in Iran.
I don't think we're finished in Afghanistan, by a long shot.
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