<HTML> From: "Luke Weiger" > CB: Actually, when the Mujuahaedeen were fighting the Soviets, the "NLF" was > the Afghan government. You must take a rather dim view of the NLF, then--I haven't seen anyone attempt to argue that the Afghan communist regime was anything more than a Soviet puppet government with next to zero popular support. -- Luke ^^^^^^ CB: Well, the NLF in Viet Nam was not "the" NLF. National Liberation Front was a general Marxist-Leninist concept  applied to a many the national liberation movements against imperialism in the period of a large number of colonial revolutionary struggles after WWII, right up through those in Afghanistan, Mozambique, El Salvador etc.  NLF's were a Communist Party idea for leading and organizing socialist oriented anti-colonial ,nationalist , you know. Perhaps you are still behind the iron curtain of anti-Soviet propaganda , and that is why you have never seen anyone argue successfully ( let alone attempt to argue)  that the Afghan national liberation movement was an expression of self-determination and socialist aspiration. Google might even have something. I'll check. </HTML>