It might be a good idea to help train the Russian military but that seems to me something similar to training a future enemy. I’d rather have them fight their own battles in their own, inept way. The Russians won’t lose to the Islamomurderers any more than we will, but I don’t think its a good idea to help them win at our own expense.

A little sharp-elbowed, perhaps, but OTOH the “enemy of my enemy” approach led us to organize, train, and arm the mujahedeen to fight the Russians in the first place (thereby exacerbating our present problems), so that thinking carefully about whether or not to continue pursuing this approach is an eminently sensible suggestion.

In addition, it would be hard for us to train the Russians without inflaming their feelings of inferiority (never far from the surface) and giving them the impression that we are patronizing them.