I Don't Get It

[Brad DeLong]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>I'm curious about how American leftists reacted to the Vietnamese 
>>intervention in Cambodia, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 
>>etc. at the time when they happened.
>
>Dunno about VN in Cambodia, but the only left group in the U.S. to 
>support the Soviet intervention (or invasion, depending on your 
>proclivities) was the Spartacist League. Everyone else was critical. 
>The Sparts have reprinted some of their commentaries from then in an 
>I-told-you-so manner.
>
>Doug

Am I allowed to think that *both* the Soviet intervention in 
Afghanistan in the late 1970s and 1980s *and* the American 
intervention in Afghanistan in the late 1970s and 1980s were bad 
things?

And don't get me started on Angola and Mozambique...

Brad DeLong