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Submitted by G.Vishvas (Germany), Nov 13, 2008 at 09:43

Afghanistan was progressing in the right direction (with many failures and false starts also) under Soviet help and supervision. But the US americans, insulted in Vietnam, wanted to take revenge on the SU in Afghanistan. The supposedly lost honour of USA was more supposedly important than the long-term welfare of mankind. In Vietnam it was not the USA that lost honour. Many decent US citizens opposed this war. It was the capitalist-greedy rabid-anti-communist war-mongers in the USA who had lost their honour (if they had any) in Vietnam.

Even Dr. Pipes does not (want to) understand this - almost 35 years after the Vietnam war is over. The USA is still not the good nation that it claims to be. May be it has a good potential - but yet it is not. The Afghanistan quagmire proves this. Afghans under US supervision are worse off than under the SU supervision.

I am no communist or marxist or bolshevik - just a neutral de-emotionalised observer since many years. The recent election campaign in USA showed once again how the conservatives in the USA blackmail the political process as if USA is their exclusive private possession. The kuran says the muslims alone have the right to determine what is good or bad for mankind. The conservatives in the USA are no better when it comes to arrogance and conceit.

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