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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (27914)5/1/2002 12:11:06 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union was an interval in a conflict which predated it, which has never been resolved.

The Soviet Union was in fact behind the two coups d'état that brought down the Afghan government at the time of Zahir, and it's been hell there ever since. The country was actually on the way to modernization and was religiously comparatively moderate. Kabul University was a real university, and photos I've seen of the city at that time showed women in western dress.

If the Soviet Union and the West had kept their noses out of the country, Afghanistan would not be in the situation it finds itself in today, though who knows if Pakistan may have wanted to annex it at some point. Pakistan in any case was behind the Taliban takeover.
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