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To: tejek who wrote (180734)	1/22/2004 4:19:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576029

Really? How is not very much like the Russian experience in Afghanistan? 1 - A much smaller percentage of the population is actively against us. 2 - We are not trying to set up a puppet government and make Iraq effectively part of an empire. 3 - There is no active superpower help for the opposition and there is less help from other nations that are not superpowers. 4 - The US military is a more effective force then the old Soviet military and it is on the whole more loyal. While there have been one or two cases where American soldiers committed terrorist acts on other soldiers, there has not and almost certainly will not be the type of corruption and working with the enemy that happened in the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. 5 - 9/11 has change the American mindset, the USSR had not had a similar recent attack. 6 - The US is economically and otherwise stronger and healthier then the Soviet Union was. 7 - The terrain is more favorable. Tim