why we are so weak

[Dennis Perrin]

> I've got some sympathy for a pro-Soviet position on Afg, but there's
> no denying they were savagely brutal as well. They flattened whole
> villages and left thousands of landmines behind. They probably killed
> more civilians in a month than the entire U.S. campaign has so far.
> If it's bad that the U.S. killed Afg civilians - and it is - then
> it's bad that the Soviets did too. And doesn't RAWA have some
> standing to criticize the Soviet invasion, being Afghans and all?
>
> Doug

The Soviets were much more brutal in Afghanistan than the US has been so
far, but that doesn't raise the ire of those who now suddenly beat the
ground in sympathy for their Afghan brothers and sisters. Perhaps that's
because the Soviets performed their slaughter under the leadership of
Brezhnev who, despite his penchant for trading sexist jokes over drinks with
his old pal Richard Nixon, was nobler than W. Right?

DP