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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3321)	1/23/2003 6:51:51 AM
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Deja Vu in Afghanistan Wisdom Fund 12/26/2002 By Eric Margolis On the frigid night of 24 December, 1979, Soviet airborne forces seized Kabul airport. Elite Alpha Group commandos sped to the presidential palace, burst into the bedroom of Afghan President Hafizullah Amin, and gunned him down. Columns of Soviet armor crossed the border and raced south towards Kabul. It took Soviet forces only a few days to occupy Afghanistan. They installed a puppet ruler, Babrak Karmal. Moscow proclaimed it had invaded Afghanistan to `liberate' it from `feudalism and Islamic extremism,' and `nests of terrorists and bandits.' Soviet propaganda churned out films of Red Army soldiers playing with children, building schools, dispensing medical care. Afghan women were to be liberated from the veil and other backwards Islamic customs. The Soviet Union and its local communist allies would bring Afghanistan into the 20th Century. Fast forward to December, 2002 and a disturbing sense of deja vu. [continued ...] e-ariana.com