К падению Кабула. Цитата.
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posicMurray Rothbard. Where Intevene Next? (The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, 1993)
I have long wished upon our interventionists' heads that they decided to intervene in Afghanistan! Afghanistan, the graveyard of the Soviet Union, where heavily armed and trained Soviet troops, equipped with planes and helicopters and all the rest, could never conquer. In the decade Soviet troops invaded and tried to occupy Afghanistan, 15,000 Soviet troops died in those harsh mountains, taking the Soviet Union down with them.
But look at Afghanistan. It's got all the requirements for U.S. intervention: it's got lots of genocide - a huge chunk of the population are either dead or refugees; it's got warlords and armies that are still fighting; it's got Communist or "ex"-Communist dictators; it's got lots of Islamic "fanatics"; it's got bitter ethnic warfare, largely between the Pushtoons in the East, the Tajiks in the North, and the Turkmens in the West; it's got a lot of starvation; and there's hardly a "democrat" in sight. Perfect fodder for the massive intervention that, if handled properly, could last a lifetime. And who knows, the U.S. Empire might even follow the USSR down the chute.
I have long wished upon our interventionists' heads that they decided to intervene in Afghanistan! Afghanistan, the graveyard of the Soviet Union, where heavily armed and trained Soviet troops, equipped with planes and helicopters and all the rest, could never conquer. In the decade Soviet troops invaded and tried to occupy Afghanistan, 15,000 Soviet troops died in those harsh mountains, taking the Soviet Union down with them.
But look at Afghanistan. It's got all the requirements for U.S. intervention: it's got lots of genocide - a huge chunk of the population are either dead or refugees; it's got warlords and armies that are still fighting; it's got Communist or "ex"-Communist dictators; it's got lots of Islamic "fanatics"; it's got bitter ethnic warfare, largely between the Pushtoons in the East, the Tajiks in the North, and the Turkmens in the West; it's got a lot of starvation; and there's hardly a "democrat" in sight. Perfect fodder for the massive intervention that, if handled properly, could last a lifetime. And who knows, the U.S. Empire might even follow the USSR down the chute.
