We don't know what would have happened if Jimmy Carter had not signed the intelligence finding Zbigniew Brzezinski demanded he sign, but had there been no arming of the mujahedin, the Soviets would not have intervened because the Kabul government would have handled the mujahedin. We don't know for sure whether women in the main cities would be able to appear in public today without burqas or would have been allowed to attend college and serve in politics, or whether Osama bin Laden would still be working for his father's construction company, but we do know for certain that many thousands more Afghanis would be alive today, and several thousand American soldiers.