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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (117718)10/26/2003 9:24:18 AM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
they were a CIA sponsored group the helped free Afghanistan from the Russians

For some reason, one hears very often this zero-sum (flat earth?) stationary world argument. Back then, when the Russians invaded Afghanistan they were not "Russians", they were Soviets, a superpower with thousands of nuclear warheads aimed at American cities. Helping people who gave their lives fighting against the aggressive Soviet imperialism was the right thing to do, both ethically and politically.
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