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They offer a prediction.

MOSCOW - Eighteen years after the Soviet army pulled out of Afghanistan in a humiliating defeat that hastened the collapse of an empire, many soldiers who fought there believe they're seeing history repeat itself.

The United States - then the force behind the Afghan resistance - now appears trapped in a similar downward spiral in Iraq, besieged by a collection of forces not unlike those it trained and equipped to cripple the Soviets two decades ago.


McClatchy Washington Bureau | 02/15/2007 | Veterans of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan predict failure in Iraq

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george.d

I think the only difference is the US attempting to involve Iran and spreading more ill-will toward the US throughout the world. We've clearly failed in Iraq (and Afghanistan), we just don't have the honor to admit same and withdraw. Two more years of our corrupt administration is a very scary thought.

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