@.Of course the US and USSR were enemies and the US couldn't really allow the USSR to hold onto Afghanistan. But once the militia's had defeated the USSR and had asked for foreign assistance the US should have put boots on the ground immediately or at least sent democratic advisors and military/police trainers. The US was responsible for the militia's having all those guns and they should have helped the militias transfer power to a Government. But the American Government and people didn't give a crap about the Afghan people and left them to fall apart into a twenty year civil war.
Refer to my earlier post. The USSR withdrew it's troops but the Marxist Democractic Republic of Afghanistan fought on with Soviet assistance. There is not a chance in hell the US could have sent it's military to take over where the Soviet miliary had left off. That makes zero sense whatsoever. I mean think about what you're saying. You're saying the US should fight an ally of the Soviet Union who they (the USSR) was trying to prop up with their own Army until 1988, with American boots on the ground AND after the Soviet Union had just left on negotiated terms. How do you think the USSR would react? Also do you not think the Mujahadeen would then probably fight the Americans who would be seen as invaders? Put it another way how do you think the Americans would have felt if the Soviet Military went to Vietnam after they withdrew while still providing support to South Vietnam. They'd go to Defcon 2.
No offense but your very naive and haven't quite grasped the Machiavellian nature of politics. No one can claim to holding a moral high ground. And I mean no one.
