Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Are you drunk? We have not lose the Afghan war. We won it in one single day. Educate yourself: Operation Storm-333 - Wikipedia. Everything else was support of the new government against the American Taliban Islamists. The limited Soviet contingent has been pulled back like an act of Gorbachov's good will. And it was not some kind of retirement. It was a parade of winners:

...