FWIW I have it on the authority of somebody In The Know (former Sov. diplomat) that at the time the Soviets tried to convince the US that they were fighting in fact an American war in Afghanistan at the time against a common Islamic threat.
--- Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
> I guess that is why the US state supported the
> taliban and the glorious
> Afgan resistance during the eighties: Lefty utopians
> with family values?
>
> TF
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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