KABUL in 1979, saying the move was aimed at preventing terrorists from entering the former superpower.
In televised comments after a cabinet meeting, Donald Trump asserted the Soviets invaded Afghanistan to battle terrorists -- a position that the United States has never owned.
The Soviet Union went bankrupt because of its long-term involvement in Afghanistan, Trump claimed. But his statement was spurned as inaccurate by The Washington Post and Washington Times.
He remarked Russia used to be the Soviet Union but Afghanistan made it . . .
