这场干预 — — 以及美国和沙特政府通过巴基斯坦三军情报局为阿富汗反苏游击队提供武装 — — 导致了战争和恐怖主义的蔓延，并在后来的美国军事干预期间存活下来。
That intervention – together with the US and Saudi governments’ provision of arms to Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet guerrillas through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency – helped spread militancy and terrorism, which the subsequent US military intervention has kept alive.