Shades of '79?

Afghan anti-US violence escalates

I'm a little young to have first hand memories of how this went down before...but isn't this pretty similar to what happened to the USSR? An economically depressed populous sparked by real or perceived anti-religious actions on the part of the occupiers rises up and starts a protracted and bloody insurgency? Wasn't it this exact scenario that caused Afghanistan to become a terrorist haven in the first place?

Does anyone still think it was a good idea to move on to Iraq before the situation in Afghanistan was more settled?