> Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!, to quote one of Workers Vanguard's
> classic headlines. The USSR conducted the war brutally, but they were
> more right than the side the US was supporting.
>
> Doug
The problem is that sometimes it's not just to fight an insurgency precisely because the insurgents are barbaric. The Soviets killed 2 million plus and weren't able to prop up their puppet state. The US has killed probably over 100,000 people already and their odds of propping up a puppet state don't appear good.
-- Luke