[lbo-talk] The Afghan War as a "Loss Leader"

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 2 06:47:33 PDT 2005


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: Moscow, New Delhi, Teheran, etc. were concerned about the Taliban, but their concern wasn't strong enough to compel them to invade on their own, without US troops.

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Moscow did consider invading, but 1) the troops were all in Chechnya and 2) the generals have no desire to repeat the 1980s Afghan experience. For India to do something would have brought in into direct confrontation with Pakistan. Iran's still recovering from the Iran-Iraq war.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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