05-29-2013, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Afghanistan is a great example. We helped them fight off the Russian invasion, and then years they they attacked us? Why? I read the other day that one of the reasons Osama attacked us was because of Kashmir? Did he not understand that Kashmir isn't even on our fucking radar?
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The Soviet Union knew that once Hafizullah Amin took power in Afghanistan, there could very well be a civil war, and they preferred to have the winner of that war more in keeping with their world view than that of a Western imperialist power.
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Amin was born in Paghman and educated at Kabul University, after which he started his career as a teacher. After a few years in that occupation, he went to the United States to study. He would visit the United States a second time before moving permanently to Afghanistan, and starting his career in radical politics.
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