Reply #14: That reply has nothing to do with the idiotic Afghanistan=Vietnam

[grantcart]

In any case I started to read it and found this equally idiotic statement


"One of our major strategic blunders in Afghanistan was not to have recognized that both Great Britain and the Soviet Union attempted to pacify Afghanistan using the same military methods as ours and failed disastrously."


There is nothing similar between the Great British rather modest presence in Afghanistan, The Soviet Union's heavy handed attempt to turn Afghanistan into a marxist colony and the multilateral effort by the United States and NATO to establish a functioning civilized administration.


You can argue that they are all stupid on their own merits but to equate them to being all from the same mold is a kind of intellectual laziness that really insults the seriousness of the subject.


However in this case you are correct that the Brits, the Russians and the Americans (mostly) are white people.