tinydancer
Diamond Member
You know I really don't give a crap on who has screwed up where and when on this planet. But I detest revisionist history.
Reagan simply expanded what Carter started.
On 3 July 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan. Following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December Operation Storm-333 and installation of a more pro-Soviet president, Babrak Karmal, Carter announced, "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is the greatest threat to peace since the Second World War".
Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reagan simply expanded what Carter started.
On 3 July 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan. Following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December Operation Storm-333 and installation of a more pro-Soviet president, Babrak Karmal, Carter announced, "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is the greatest threat to peace since the Second World War".
Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia