Monday, November 24, 2008

Ixnay ethay Ovietsay

From the department of unhelpful comparisons, via an AP story on Afghanistan troop reinforcements:

The planned reinforcements will bring the international force to roughly the same level as the contingent the Soviets deployed to Afghanistan in the 1980s, in an unsuccessful effort to defeat the U.S.-backed fundamentalist rebellion there.

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