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2022-03-24 Afghanistan

Devastated Afghan girls leave school hours after reopening

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 How many times is this bullshit going to be written?

Posted by Chris 2022-03-24 09:21|| 2022-03-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 If you're tired of reading it, don't.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-24 09:51|| 2022-03-24 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Think of the fools who believed that the US must help the islamics fight off Brehhnev's campaign. Now think of the same kind of fools cheering Zelensky and sending him and his murderous scum weapons and kisses. That is what only propaganda and not enough awareness does to people.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-24 11:03|| 2022-03-24 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Tired of hearing it in general.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-24 11:05|| 2022-03-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry but it's not our problem

Posted by Whater Dark Lord of the Algonquins4157 2022-03-24 11:31|| 2022-03-24 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 CTHU

Brezhnev was only in power until 1982. Three other leaders of the USSR continued the war, the last being Gorbachev (whose chairmanship of the CP began in 1985).

In retrospect the US probably did too much in the way of helping the anti Soviet forces and to that extent the majoritarian view agrees with you. However, the anti Soviet forces were not dominated by the Taliban until pretty late in the conflict.

There are people who claim that the US help to the anti Soviet Afghan side (and in terms of dollars it wasn't that much) bled the USSR and accelerated the collapse of the USSR. That, of course, can not be proved but also not disproved.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-24 11:33|| 2022-03-24 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Afghanistan certainly didn't help the Soviet Union but here is what Gorbachev says:

Turning Point at Chernobyl, by Mikhail Gorbachev, Project Syndicate: The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed. ...

As for the girls, we got their hopes up and now they're crushed. Sorry. Eventually we may see that American intervention in Afghanistan planted the seeds for change. Hard to say.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-24 11:45|| 2022-03-24 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 In retrospect the US probably did too much in the way of helping the anti Soviet forces

Don't take it personally Lord Garth, but you understand that sounds like a really bad 'oops!'

And that was the exact attitude of the US establishment after every major intervention anywhere.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-24 11:45|| 2022-03-24 11:45|| Front Page Top

Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-24 18:46|| 2022-03-24 18:46|| Front Page Top

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