[lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy

[Jim Devine]

My comment -- see below -- was flippant.  Of course, there is the
question of what year you're talking about. If you're talking about
the USSR fighting the Islamic extremists in 1988, maybe you're right
that Osama and the like were anti-American. But the initial Soviet
invasion (1978?) was more like the US invasion of Vietnam, to defend a
beleaguered client state that didn't have much positive contact with
its people. It is the former invasion that helped create Osama as a
force to be reckoned with.  Of course, no analogy is perfect...

On 3/7/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
I wrote:
> > if the US policy was justified, it seems that th
> > Soviet invasion was
> > justified, for much the same reasons.
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