Re: mystery solved

The Russians in Afghanistan were monsters. Evil, vicious, fascists, end of
story. If you don't believe me, you were watching white-washed American
television and never went there. Russian conduct went against all sense of
human decency, destroyed people, and degraded themselves.
"indignant" tina

>Hi Jim,
>
>I see no reason to suspect that the Russians would have been any more
>successful at "controlling the region" for any significant length of time
>than we will we be. They weren't even doing very well in the Afghan
>mountains before we sent anti-tank missiles and small weapons and serious
>funds to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, those noble warriors that Rep. Bob Dornan,
>on the floor of the US House of Representatives, declared to be "Freedom
>Fighters" and "patriots" as brave and as righteous as our own Founding
>Fathers -- of course, that was more than a few years before they drew up
>and
>executed their plan to hijack four airplanes and fly them into buildings
>here
>in the good old US of A.
>
>No, I don't think the Russians would have done any better than us. And
>they
>would have eventually left, too. Just like the Romans, just like the
>French,
>just like the Spanish, just like the British (twice), and just like we
>will.
>
>Afghanistan already on the way back to tribalism. Iraqis chanting "No to
>Bush, No to Saddam, Yes to Islam." Syria and Lebanon backing Hezbullah
>against Israel. Iran sending weapons around the region and helping the
>fundamentalists establish local authority in rural Iraq. Our own allies,
>the
>Saudi's and the Kuwaiti's, for instance, refusing to crack down on their
>own
>local support for international terrorism or even to consider anything like
>"democracy." And so on...
>
>In ten years, the region will be no different politically or in terms of
>"peace" or "democracy" than it was last year. But we will have spent
>billions.
>
>Watch and see.
>
>All the best,
>
>--John
>

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