It is a remarkable contrast with today, is it not, how the US 
government viewed and the portrayed the Soviet era invasion of 
Afghanistan in 1979? Was that not also an attempt by a great power 
to put down terrorism, inflamed by radical Islam, for the purpose 
of domestic security?  As I recall, was this not the war in which 
Osama bin Laden, under U.S. tutelage, got his start in irregular 
warfare?

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No, in fact I do not have the first clue what the reason for the Soviet
Invasion of Afghanistan was for.  The Soviets had their own ways of
dealing with terrorism, mostly pretty brutal and harsh.

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