
Soviets resupply their bases, not realising what an insane futile venture Afghanistan will be for them (until Chechnya)
Some of the top ten reasons never to get involved in Afghanistan:
Sly Stallone, as John Rambo, fights alongside the black turbaned Mujahadin, to get rid of the soviet infidels. (RAMBO III-no silly, 3 not i i i)
Eloquently stated in the Princess bride as the number 1 most important thing not to do:
Never get involved in a land war in Asia (number 2 was 'never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line' and then Vizzini, the genius Sicilian promptly dies from Iocaine-at the hands of the man in black-not Johnny Cash silly)
and obviously, the utter useless waste of human life.