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Originally posted by jyl
That's my point. Being blindly and stupidly "tough" does not work. Being smartly and selectively "tough" does work.
Going into Afghanistan was smart tough. Going into Iraq was stupid tough. Our current govt doesn't seem to distinguish between smart and stupid.
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The Soviets saw what happened in Iran with the Ayotola, saw it happening in Aganistan and decided to nip it in the bud, so that it wouldn't spread to the 40 Million Muslims in the USSR.
Again Quanitative over Qualitative. Thats how Western Bureaucracies work.