Osama bin Laden: A weapon of mass Convenience

[phareye]

I knew, at the time of the rebellion, that we should have let the Soviets have that horrible place â?? but the Reagan/Bush Sr. administration helped the underdogs â?? who bit the hand that fed them. You know what our ancestors (yours and mine) did with dogs that did this? That's exactly what has to be done with these animals.

reading the history of the afghan war, it seems that it was less a case of the US giving help to the underdogs after the soviets invaded, and more a case of the soviets invading because of the activity of the US intel services already going on.
it can be argued that our actions in afghanistan and pakistan put the soviets on edge (after all, it was right next door to them geographically), thus goading them into invading.

you're gonna' spank the dog that bit you when you're the one who got him all worked up in the first place?
you don't have any pets, do you?