Большая статья о войне в Афганистане
Статья из The Wall Street Journal. На английском.
В статье идет сравнение вторжения в Афганистан Советских войск и война, которую в Афганистане сейчас ведет Америка.
Хотя, как мне кажется, главное здесь:
“What have the Americans done so far? They’re only busy building their own military bases,” said Mohammad Nassim, a 40-year-old Kabul resident, airing a frequently heard opinion.
In the 1980s, hundreds of Soviet civilian families lived in Kabul without much protection. Today, almost all Westerners here live behind in walled and guarded compounds and guesthouses. “Believe me, I miss those days of peace and security,” said Hussain Jawad, a 48-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, of the Soviet period.
И еще немного.
Portraying Americans here as the new Soviets, of course, forms the very foundation of the Taliban world view. “Both superpowers wanted to impose by force their alien ideologies on our country - the Soviets socialism, and the Americans this strange phenomenon they call liberal democracy,” Mullah Wakil Muttawakil, foreign minister of the Taliban government that was deposed in 2001, said in an interview. “These are outside ideas. And anything coming from abroad is resented and rejected here.”
Отсюда.
По ссылке от
Kirill Pankratov.
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