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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
Ah I didn't notice the source... Of course it was FOX - the most incompetent and lying "news media" in the World. Congrats to the winner!  )) |
I know you don't like Fox News but you're cutting off the head of the messenger. The story is true and can be found here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...o-2117468.html
and here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mpossible.html
From the article:
"As Russian troops prepare to return to Afghanistan in landmark agreement, Gorbachev warns Nato victory is impossible
By Graham Smith
Last updated at 11:52 AM on 27th October 2010
* Moscow agrees to help train Afghan army
* Russia to supply Nato with helicopters
* Watershed agreement to be announced at next month's Nato summit
* Gorbachev warns America of Afghanistan turning into another Vietnam
Russia is set to return to the war in Afghanistan 21 years after its forces were driven out of the country.
Moscow has agreed to help train the Afghan army and anti-narcotics troops - at the request of the same Western countries who helped remove Russia from the country in the late 1980s.
But Mikhail Gorbachev today warned Nato that victory in Afghanistan is 'impossible'.
The former leader of the Soviet Union, who pulled Russian troops out of Afghanistan in 1989, said President Barack Obama is right to start withdrawing U.S. forces from the country next year.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz13ZSWjenf