Re: Putin's gambit

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> On 13 Maijs, 22:44, Dmitry <dmitrijsfedot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 11 May, 10:43, hol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Eugene Holman) wrote:
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> Western and especially American intervention in Latvia in 1919 was
> really awful, too. I mean, British war****ps killed the people, and the
> Americans brought food with all of those strings attached. Woe is me.

Back in those days the "bad guys" were easy to identitfy and eliminate. It
should be clear after some seven years of conflict that intervening in
Afghanistan is a great way to help some of the people in Kabul but purely
dysfunctional as a strategy for containing or destroying al-Qa'ida.

Warfare with amorphous, supranational, rag-tag, leaderless organizations
whose sup****ters have no regard for human life, not even their own, is
quite a different prospect than war with states that have infrastrucures
to maintain, populations to feed and protect, and a technologically
advanced military to concretely project power.

Regards,
Eugene Holman