Reply #7: Shades of Afghanistan [View All]

[Mike Niendorff]

These are exactly the same tactics used by Islamic guerrillas in Afghanistan to cripple, and ultimately defeat, the Soviet occupation. The only difference is that now they're being turned against an American occupation rather than a Soviet one. Against the Soviets, we were told that these were the tactics of "brave religious freedom fighters" fighting against "godless communism". But now, against the US, they're the tactics of "barbaric Islamist insurgents" fighting against "the forces of freedom". Same murders, same brutality, same ideology, but magically the Soviet-era sympathies from the RW have all gone down the memory hole. Imagine that :eyes:


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