Posted by: DWA
04/07/2008, 22:25:40
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Angus:" From what I hear the country was much more prosperous than now, much less polarized, and it was helpful to Afghanis that a pre-9/11 Osama bin Laden got CIA financing to make sufficient trouble for the Soviets to induce them to withdraw. Thus Soviet violence begat CIA and al Quaeda inspired violence. Does anyone have any data/facts to dispute that?" More than most, Afghanistan is positioned in such a strategic central tug-of-war spot between some contending great powers, and possibly constituting routes/right-of-way for vital transport/trade, newly developed oil north of them, at the very least. Compare: Korea, maybe, historically troubled/challeged, within reciprocal spitting distance with Russia (Vladivostok), China (Peking), and Japan (Tokyo). .
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