[Griff]

No. He's saying the invasion caused the people to rally behind Stalin's communist government because it was the organized force of opposition and the perceived lesser of two evils. The radical Islamists are the organized opposition who will receive the default support. A similar thing happened when the Japanese invaded China, the Chi-Coms were perceived as the legitamit opposition, since they were not western dominated and were already mobilized.

What happens then is the nominally pro-western governments in the region fall in a wave of Islamic radicalism, oil becomes a weapon, is cut off and Griff puts up a windmill and looks into a little bio-diesel operation, while hoods and hillbillys die for oil.