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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Win Smith who wrote (4798)10/13/2001 6:45:49 PM
From: marcos   of 281500
 
Palmerston was secretary of the Foreign Office during what the brits call the The First Afghan War ... so quite applicable .... here's a bit from google -

'In 1838 Palmerston commenced a war against Dost Mohammed, the ruler of
Cabul, a war that led to the destruction of an English army, and was
commenced on the plea of Dost Mohammed having entered into a secret
alliance against England with Persia and Russia....'

csf.colorado.edu
... from an article in the New York Daily Tribune written by, guess who, Karl Marx -
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