Giving arms to fundamentalist Muslims is NEVER a good thing.
Neither is letting communists win. Both sides were evil, and we picked what was to us the lesser one at the time.
Now, as to my opinion, based on what I know now I would have let the communists take over probably. The reason for this is that I know that the Soviet Union and the communist system it had would be doomed to collapse(though the fundamentalists could have taken over afterwards anyways, which is the real problem with these what ifs). Now, given the info they had at the time, I probably would have supported the fundamentalists because communism was the bigger threat at the time.
Yes. At the time, the muslims were not a serious threat to the west, while the Soviets had a growing arsenal of nuclear weapons pointed at us. Had they achieved significant superiority in weaponry to risk a first strike, Sept. 11th would have looked like a day at the beach. We had to weaken them any way possible at the time.
In the real world, you must sometimes choose the lesser of two bad options. The ideal is not usually available, unless of course the American people wanted to send their own sons to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Failing that, supporting the Afghan resistance was the best option. Our real mistake was abandoning Afghanistan to the muslim terrorists after the Soviets left.
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