Moscow again eyes Afghanistan 20 years after retreat

Christian Science Monitor by Fred Weir | Feb. 16, 2009 (Special Report)

When the USSR ended its disastrous near decade-long occupation of Afghanistan – the last Soviet troops were extracted 20 years ago Sunday – war hero Gen. Makhmut Gareyev was left behind to advise the Kremlin's client regime on means of survival. He too fled three years later as waves of Islamist rebels, formerly armed by the US, hammered at the gates of Kabul. Full Story »

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 by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 16, 2009

If the Russians tell you Afgan., is cold, wear a coat. If ten years of getting their asses kicked doesn't make them experts I don't know what does. You are not going to sustain a military presence in Afgan., without billions of dollars and thousands of dead Americans. The U.S. has to learn that we cannot police the world by our selfs. Theres not another country idiotic enough to fight two wars we can't win and still take care of it's own.

While everyone says Obama is slow to make up his mind, Gates and other military officers say different. You can't be like Bush and run and gun this country.

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