The U.S. government seems to make a distinction between sending in troops to help an existing government and sending in troops to invade another country.
I don't know much about the Afghan republic, but they seem to a been quite progressive relative to what existed before or after. Wouldn't the United States be concerned if a fundamentalist regime cropped up on its borders with Canada or Mexico?
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:57:47PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> Sure, and most socialist grouplets in the U.S. would agree with you!
>
> Doug
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