Wasn’t it about at this point where the USSR came completely off the rails in Afghanistan?
The point in question is "when the Afghanis started using shoulder-mounted surface to air missiles to kill helicopters"? Well, the Iraqi resistance is now using, um, shoulder-mounted surface to air missiles to kill helicopters.
I wonder where they're getting them. The USSR is demised, but there are probably enough embittered ex-Soviet generals who'd be happy to sell Stingerskis to one or another of the different Mesopotamian resistance groups, as a sort of "we're not going to hog all the fun of being destroyed in a land war in Asia" greetng card. And if not the USSR, there are only about 150 other states in the world that loathe the American Imperium, and many of those states would no doubt love to get in the good graces of the Iraqi resistance.
(via Juan Cole)
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They probably got the Stingers from us, when the Iraqi insurgents were the Iraqi dictatorship, our dearest allies against the Iranians, who were, of course, our dearest allies in the first Persian Gulf War against the despotic Iraqi dictatorship but are now ... ah, hell, I can't keep up.