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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
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I am now reading THE GREAT GAMBLE by Gregory Feifer. It is about the anecedants of the American involvement in.Afghanistan..the Soviet Invasion.
It seems that there was no moment of decision for the Soviet Polit Bureau. Or no document exists of the decision being made. Brezhnev liked the assininated leader of Afghanistan and made the decision to assissinate his successor. Ironically the Afghan leadership kept asking for Soviet troops to be deployed to help quell the provincial insurrection. The Soviets obliged which made the Afghan leadership happy..only they were there not to help.but to get rid of that leadership.
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