How many nations declined their invitation to participate in the Moscow 1980 Olympics?

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan did lead to US arming the Taliban. The extremists of the Taliban paid us back decades later with 9/11. That's just one example of many around the world. Sadly, with humans, it will never end.

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to US arming the Taliban. Naively setting in motion another even longer war which just ended in disaster this summer. Watch Charlie Wilson’s War.

I'm from Georgia, and his was the first Presidential election I was old enough to vote in.

Elfcounsel, it's something to think about!!

So the US supported the Taliban. And they put an end to women's education and all their rights, destroyed ancient monuments and sent the country back to the store age. Great work! And now they are calling them the enemy. Might have been better to let the Russians carry on. Saved a lot of lives.