From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
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> Robert G Lewis wrote:
>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:41ec5295$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>"Robert G Lewis"  wrote:
>>>
>>>>We had more good will and cooperation than we have now.
>>>
>>>We had no good will before - and who cares anyway, the French
& Germans
>>>would be lucky to be able to muster 15,000 troops for anything, anywhere,
>>>anytime. Good will without capability is meaningless. Anyway we have just
>>>as much or more cooperation now as we've ever had (on anything to do with
>>>security and bringing down terrorists that doesn't relate to boots on the
>>>ground in Iraq).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Where I see cooperation and good will making a difference is in keeping
>> things from getting out of hand.  Had Saudi Arabia and Pakistan not
>> supported the Islamic fundamentalists things may never have escalated to
>> the current level.
>>
>
> & Afghanistan may still be communist with a large Soviet garrison.
>
> Adam

Unlikely as the SU did break up.  However I was thinking of the support of
the Taliban government.

Bob Lewis

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