Patriots, Rebels, and Terrorists by William Norman Grigg

As veteran foreign affairs analyst Eric Margolis points out, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan brought about democratic elections, the emancipation of women, efforts to develop and modernize the nation's infrastructure, an end to fundamentalist Islamic rule, and other benefits – at the price of domination by an ideologically hostile foreign power that killed millions of people. Curiously, this transaction wasn't seen as a bargain by most of the Afghans themselves – but why should their opinion count? They're reactionaries, remember?