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To: epicure who wrote (28747)9/17/2006 11:39:53 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541674
 
If you could "win" using torture and repression, the USSR would have won in Afghanistan.

Excellent point. My own reference is the French in Algeria. But there are, most likely, a great many such illustrations.



To: epicure who wrote (28747)9/17/2006 12:07:33 PM
From: kumar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541674
 
If you could "win" using torture and repression, the USSR would have won in Afghanistan.

No the USSR could not have...

The Afghan/Pakistani NWFP region has never been "ruled" by anyone since the days of Alexander the Great.


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