 They got sucked into Afghanistan much as the United States got sucked into Vietnam, without clearly thinking through the consequences, and wildly underestimating the hostility they would arouse".By the fall of 1979, the Amin regime was collapsing with morale in the Afghan Army having fallen to rock-bottom levels while the "mujahideen" ("Those engaged in "jihad"") had taken control of much of the countryside.The general consensus amongst Afghan experts at the time was that it was not a question of if "mujahideen" would take Kabul, but only when the "mujahideen" would take Kabul.