[glannon]

Today you can hear liberal American women complain that the Russians actually had a modernist agenda for the women of Afghanistan. Hillary Clinton made a remark that at least failed to be critical of the Soviets while she was flying around on Broomstick One around Thanksgiving. Talk about so much moral equivocation

well, the jihadists were rebelling even before the russians came in because of the secular modernisation being imposed by the regime in afghanistan. got them real mad. apparently every time a govt goes left enough its time to dig up the bones of millions dead to justify whatever we do to it.

[risk]

In the case of the Soviet union, yes -- it does explain why we gave battle in so many far-flung places. Don't forget that it was the Soviets and their runaway Marxist terror who are to be blamed for the pain. The same goes for Mao. If you try to explain the suffering in any other way, you're only left with some incompetence on the part of the allies.

The number - 100,000,000 - is astounding. It can't be underestimated. This was a force that had our names on it, and without resistance, heavy resistance, it would have dominated the planet.

The people of Afghanistan are a piteous people for all they've suffered. But I think we can blame the backwardness of the Islamic culture that put them in a position where they couldn't fight for their own freedom in the colonial days, and in the Cold War.

But no matter where the Soviets went with their Marxist Imperialism, they had to be stopped at any cost.