Yup, what was the line that Alex Cockburn had after the '79 invasion?
Think it was, "If ever a country deserved to be raped, it was Afghanistan."
Then he said something about fucking goats!
Michael Pugliese
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From: Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: M-TH: Russian 'intervention' in Afghanistan
> At 06:44 23/05/00 +1000, Rob wrote:
>
> >I see Moscow is threatening to drop some bombs on Afghanistan because the
> >Taliban is allegedly (and unsurprisingly) helping out the Chechen
> >separatists.
>
> This is consistent with 100 years of imperial assumptions by Russia
towards
> Afghanistan. It is no accident that Putin had himself inaugurated in the
> throne room of the Czars.
>
> (British imperial history makes the contested nature of Afghanistan
between
> different empries quite clear. At least Britain got a thrashing early on.)
>
> Policy towards Afghanistan has been one of the big crunches on the left,
> with certain allegedly marxist groups supporting the Russian invasion of
> 1970 and the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty.
>
> Unfortunately a large section of the left in the USA and in Europe will
> once again feel indulgent towards Russia because Afghanistan has
> undemocratic practices towards women.
>
>
>
> > the
> >hegemons du jour prefer their foreign radicals to be of the right - as
> >Trotsky warned when the boy Hitler first came under notice
>
> Can you explain this reference?
>
>
> > - and as Caspian
> >oil projections might recommend).
>
>
> Can you explain again.
>
> Too eliptical.
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London
>
>
>
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