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Old 09-30-2007, 12:03 AM  
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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom View Post
How was supporting the Taliban during the Russian invasion a complete failure? It directly led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, which is exactly why we did it. We had to make a lot of tough choices to support complete scum bags during the Cold War, and a lot of those choices are coming back to bite us in the ass, but politically that was a different time.
The issue was Afghanistan not Russia. And Afghanistan is a complete failure with the president begging the Taliban for a cease fire and offering them their jobs back.
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