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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 10:36 PM
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Playing on the remains of the last vanquished 'nation-builders'
Edited on Fri Apr-10-09 11:02 PM by bigtree


Children playing on the remains of a Russian tank in Panjwaii, Afghanistan, Friday. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 10:39 PM
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1. Afghanistan is where empires go to die
It was true for Alexander the Great and it's true for us.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 10:40 PM
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2. I wouldn't call the Soviets "nation builders"
They were trying to prop up a dying sympathetic government whatever the cost, and fought with a ferocity which cost them tens of thousands of their own men.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 11:03 PM
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4. I wouldn't
. . . exactly call US nation-builders, either
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 10:53 PM
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3. Hah! I like the missing treads
One almost expects it to be propped up on cinder blocks
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