Originally Posted by sortie

My take:

- Soviet invasion of Afghanistn led to economic collapse of the empire.
Are you hearing the words recession often?

- US puppet governments(The Shaw of Iran) don't last in the middle east and produce a hostile country in the end. Iraqi puppets aren't going to last.

- Nobody is winning any wars in the middle east, just stiring up shit until they finally give up.

- Carter had enough brains to prepare for a draft before actually firing weapons in the middleast, unlike the current admin.

- We admitted we had interest in the middleast and admitted it was oil, unlike the current admin.

- We admitted we wanted to establish more military bases instead of trying to sneak them in like the current admin.

- We backed Osama, we backed Sadam and even pledged to arm and back
Iran.

etc...etc...etc..