tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post4705675861161738881..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: British Athletes Forced To KowTow To Dictators - AgainFreedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-87484573667544324422008-02-11T17:59:00.000-08:002008-02-11T17:59:00.000-08:00Their brutality is the huge reason they ultimately...<I>Their brutality is the huge reason they ultimately were defeated, because it united the various Afghan factions against them.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>....and i thought it was just the US satellite imagery of russian troop movements, the funding/smuggling/suppling of arms by the CIA/DOD that did that. you know, the arms they said were twenty years old and the afghans couldn't use them against the US. the stinger missiles and such. maybe, had the US thrown in with the USSR some of that raping and pillaging might, might, not have occured....leaving the marines to look for little mohammed atta. putin after all publicly pledged the USSR to be an ally of the US on 9/12/2001. was that before or after they started building the iranian reactor? i digress.<BR/>i never said it was the right thing to have done, only a mental excercise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-33397020542704721142008-02-11T15:14:00.000-08:002008-02-11T15:14:00.000-08:00Louie old pal,I don't think you want to conflate w...Louie old pal,I don't think you want to conflate what the Russians did in Afghanistan with the fact that Osama was one of the people fighting them.<BR/><BR/>The Russians massacred thousands of men, women and children,sowed the country with unmarked mine fields,and blatantly raped and tortured people to keep their puppet regime in power. <BR/><BR/>Their brutality is the huge reason they ultimately were defeated, because it united the various Afghan factions against them.<BR/><BR/>Do the research and then tell me if you would <I> really </I> have wanted the US to be apart of that.<BR/><BR/>All Best,<BR/>ffFreedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-91036504568605608862008-02-11T14:50:00.000-08:002008-02-11T14:50:00.000-08:00was his decision to have the US boycott the Soviet...<I>was his decision to have the US boycott the Soviet Olympics in Moscow in 1980 after its brutal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>.....kind of makes one wonder why the planes flew into the WTC and not the kremlin?<BR/>while some argue back/forth about what would have happened had that suitcase bomb been closer to hitler.<BR/>i've wondered of late what detente' would have looked like had the US helped the USSR in their southern excursion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com