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What is some interesting information about Soviet-Afghan War?
Jan 17, 2009 by Jedi | Posted in History
I found a lot of low-down about Soviet-Afghan War.... but i need only important info or facts!
So what might be some interesting info about Soviet-Afghan war??
What is more captivating than Carter's Advisor to the President on National Security Affairs Zbigniew Brzezinski's single assertion on the Soviet-Afghan War is the difference in the portrayal of this war in the two different films (Western and Russian) that came out:
'The Beast' (1988) - directed by Kevin Reynolds, about a strayed Russian tank and its crew.
'The 9th Company (9 Rota) (2005 ) - directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, about a players being left behind, and is slaughtered, as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan. The story was loosely based on the real circumstance the 'Battle for Hill 3234.' It was a box-office smash in Russia, and is similar to the American film 'Outfit.'
I have seen both, and both are worth watching. Unfortunately, I have not seen the 1990 film 'Afghan Breakdown,' so I cannot rate it, but noted the chance I will watch it.
H.C.M. | Jan 17, 2009
An impt. recognized in Carter's cabinet - can't remember last name, Polish and starts with a z - says the Soviet-Afghan war destroyed the Soviet Union, but created Islamic terrorism...and he calls it a reasonable trade.
Naz F | Jan 17, 2009
Why did the US turn its back on Afghanistan after the Soviet war?
Feb 10, 109 by interdependent globalized world | Posted in Polls & Surveys
They needed the US and we turned away from them and unfortunately, we are now empathy the pain that comes with that.
We helped fund the Islamist resistance to the Soviet Union along with Saudi help homologous us dollar for dollar. We helped galvanize the Islamic world against the Soviets to get Arab foreign fighters into Afghanistan. We gave medium of exchange to Pakistan who used it to help build the Madrassas, to recruit and train fighters from the tribal areas and to bring on in foreigners, one foreigner being Osama Bin Laden who was unfortunately hailed as a hero after returning to Saudi Arabia after the war.
He came to loathing the US presence in the region and became a violent extremist unfortunately.
The ISI understandably wants to keep its assets, the people they trained and funded with US and Saudi aide, in the Tribal areas and in Afghanistan. Currently, we are targeting those assets and the army and the ISI is not happy at all about that.
Plus, the Pakistani army and the ISI have to peeve about India now which only deepens the problems.
In fact, the leader of the Taliban, Mohammed Omar, was a fighter in the Soviet war whom we helped. Pakistan, after the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and after well-mannered war erupted on who would lead Afghanistan, backed Mohammed Omar and the Taliban, a group of Islamic students at the stretch who went to a madrassa that was built with US or Saudi funding most likely in the 1980s.
It's embarrassing that we turned our back on the Afghan people and now they have suffered 30 years of war and fury due to it.
The ISI is Pakistan's intelligence agency in case you didn't know that.
Princeh Monster: Please answer the insupportable or just read it and learn something that you probably didn't know before.
A Jerk, but honest: I don't know, possibly it isn't the best place but could you answer the question
From NY to LA: I am not an Afghan or Muslim but that was extremely rude. Could you please answer the question.
Written on December 18, 2008
Egyptian Islamic Jihad was a number that later became known as Al Qaeda. It was started, from what I understand, by Ayman Al Zawahiri. Zawahiri met Bin Laden in Afghanistan allegedly at a market place during the Soviet war and they became friends and Bin Laden was mainly used for money and for his supposedly charismatic celebrity.
Many groups latched onto the Al Qaeda name after that as different groups attempted to unify their resistance towards the Arab regimes throughout the Mesial East and North Africa. They saw the regimes as dictatorships that were incapable of defending the Arab people as a whole and not following Islam's teachings.
Their pipe targets are all of the dictator governments throughout the Arab world and, since the US has such a prominent role in the Arab world, the US, in their minds, must be driven out by crack.
It stinks, but this is what they appear to believe and they are willing to do almost anything to force the US out unfortunately.
I wish for the people of the Middle East to one day elevation up against radicalism and for the governments to become more democratic like the West.
I wish for this to be peacefully done and I hope that no violent mutiny takes place if this ever occurs.
Harmonious sure that we had no strategic use for them after the cold war ended.
Burned us in the end, but history is full of similar mistakes.
And you argue from a humanistic standpoing, which has no telling to why the U.S. was there in the first place. We were there when we needed to be (for us), and we left (at the time) when the need was no longer there (again, at the time). Too bad Bin Laden became such a war-acquisitive fool deprived of his wars. At least the Saudis told him to take a hike....
Kris | Feb 10, 519
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So in looking at President Obama's new strategy directions for Afghanistan, what goes down in Washington politics far outweighs analyses of local conditions. I had hoped that Obama would plane with the American people that the war in Afghanistan is not and more »
