Saturday, May 17, 2008

Refusing to serve?

This will be interesting to follow. Like I said twice before, I'm glad I'm not going to Iraq. I've been reading "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll, getting one guy's slant on the precursors to our Afghanistan invasion. It is interesting to see parallels between our covert support of insurgents during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and Iran's covert support of insurgents during the current US occupation of Iraq. We've gotten ourselves into a great big pot of stink in both places. Let's hope we have more wits than the Soviets did---

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