A Somber Warning on Afghanistan

Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
2.7
by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 15, 2009

The article emphasizes how to win a colonial-like geopolitical battle for military control, with quotes from advocates of projecting power. There is not talk of the desires of the Afghanis, and no talk of an exit strategy for Bush's war of choice that is now Obama's war of folly.

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