[lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06

[Jim Devine]

Carrol Cox wrote:
>Looking back from the present, that appears to have been a very sensible
>perspective! :-) Much better the Red Army than the U.S. Army.


> The Soviet war was brutal, but I'm not unsympathetic to the position.
>
> Doug

the USSR at least had a friendly local government with roots in Afghan
urban society to ally with. The US mostly had allies in the Afghan
exile community or among war-lords. Further, the conditions got much
worse under the Taliban (erstwhile semi-allies of the US), so I'm not
surprised if the US/NATO occupation is more brutal. I don't know if it
is or not.
--
Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles