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Lost in his senile alcoholic fog, he did as his psychophantic advisors told him to do.
垂垂老矣，成日與酒精為伴，勃列日涅夫的心理建議師讓他怎么做，他就怎么做。
One such bright idea was the invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Day 1979.
其中一個很棒的想法就是在1979年圣誕節入侵阿富汗。
One would have assumed that someone in the Soviet hierarchy would have learned the necessary lessons from the American fiasco in Vietnam.
大家本來覺得蘇聯的領導會從美國在越南戰爭的慘敗中學到必要的教訓。
But what Brezhnev wanted apparently a successful little war was what the Soviet Union got.
但是勃列日涅夫想要的顯然是個很小的成功，這也是蘇聯最后得到的。
Soon, the USSR was up to its neck in a bloody, expensive guerrilla war, which it could neither win, nor get out of.
很快，蘇聯也陷入殘忍、開支巨大的游擊戰中，它既贏不了，也無法脫身。
The United States pulled itself out of its malaise with the same hard work and positive attitude we had shown in riding out the Great Depression.
美國通過和大蕭條中同樣辛苦的努力和認真的態度才得以從低迷中走出來。
But the Afghan War would be the powder keg which blew the rotten Soviet state sky high.
而阿富汗戰爭像炸藥桶一樣，將已經腐朽的蘇聯炸了個半死。
Segment 29c: After the Cold War.
29段第三部分：冷戰后。
Striking directly at Iran was unlikely, given the logistics.
從后勤上來說，直接攻打伊朗不太可能。
It was also imprudent for America to do so, given the state of the hostage crisis.
考慮到人質危機問題，美國如果這樣做會過于魯莽。
Quite understandably, America was looking at ways to strike back at the Shiite Iranian regime.
因此，美國希望找到能夠回擊什葉派伊朗政權的方式。
