FWIW, over on Peter Lavelle's Russia list, a former Soviet diplomat told us that they (the Soviets) had tried to convince Washington that in fact they were fighting anti-American Islamic extremists who were a mutual enemy and so the Soviet Army was fighting a de facto pro-American war.
--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if the US policy was justified, it seems that th
> Soviet invasion was
> justified, for much the same reasons.
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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