Posted by Sigismund on August 3, 2009, at 19:38:25
In reply to Re: america in afghanistan » manic666, posted by Phil on August 3, 2009, at 18:07:00
>America lost 60,000 men in WW2 to save everyones #sses over there and all over Europe.
The soviet army ran on American trucks and American food fed the citizens of the USSR, but it was the soviets who, with 8 million military dead defeated the Germans.
It is the greatest pity that advantage was not taken, while it would have borne fruit, of the window of opportunity, open for maybe even years in Afghanistan. Now the choices are much harder.
poster:Sigismund
thread:910058
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/poli/20090221/msgs/910085.html