[Marxism] Afghanistan, Another Untold Story By Michael Parenti

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_Global Research_ 
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Author's website: _www.michaelparenti.org_ 
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Barack Obama is on record as  advocating a military escalation in 
Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper  into that quagmire, we might do well to learn 
something about recent  Afghan history and the role played by the United States. 

Less than  a month after the 11 September  2001 attacks on the World Trade  
Center and the Pentagon, US leaders began an all-out aerial assault upon  
Afghanistan, the country purportedly harboring Osama bin Laden and his al  Qaeda 
terrorist organization. More than twenty years earlier, in 1980, the  United 
States intervened to stop a Soviet “invasion” of that country. Even  some 
leading progressive writers, who normally take a more critical view  of US policy 
abroad, treated the US intervention against the  Soviet-supported government as “
a good thing.” The actual story is not  such a good thing.

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