These books I take are considered by you to be Gospels? Or are they only expressing the opinions of their Authors? i.e. Their take on the facts as they interpret them?

No need to reply to the points I have raised, had you wished to refute them you would already have done so, but I do not believe that you can.

1: The military campaign waged by the Northern Alliance, backed up by Special Forces and latterly by US-OEF was rather short lived and minimal. Especially when compared to the Soviet invasion, which actually was an invasion.

2: Please provide an example of this "heavy bombing campaign" - any idea of how few aircraft were involved? Irrefutable fact - A heavy bombing campaign cannot get any heavier than the strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany which lasted over three years, involved thousands of Heavy Bombers, dropped over 1.5 million tons of bombs and managed to kill 600,000 Germans.

3: Foreign troops allowed into Afghanistan between October 7th 2001 and December 2001? Between 500 - 1,000 Specialist Advisors; two Companies of 40 Commando Royal Marines + RM SBS, towards the end 1,000 USMC to Fort Rhino and 1,000 men from 10th Mountain Division to the Mazar-e-Sharif. Not much of an invasion force when all said and done. primarily they all acted as mentors and provided back-up for the Northern Alliance forces. All of the above has been clearly detailed. I rather liked your term "Afghan proxies", proxies of whom? These so-called proxies of yours had been fighting the Taliban since 1994 and before that they had fought, and defeated, the Soviets.

The "War" you speak of is in fact an attempted insurrection that is running out of steam fast as far as the Taliban are concerned. Attacks down an amazing 80%, fewer and fewer incidents reported, any signs of the much sought after "defeat" of the "Big, Bad, West" are not very promising at all - in fact that ship left port and disappeared over the horizon a long, long time ago.