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Hahaha, you could time-warp that strip to 35 years ago... and replace the iPhone with some Agent Orange....and no one would look twice.
Weird, huh? 
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They'd even be drinking chai.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton 
Hahaha, you could time-warp that strip to 35 years ago... and replace the iPhone with some Agent Orange....and no one would look twice.
Weird, huh?
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Originally Posted by subego
They'd even be drinking chai.
Probably mint tea if it is supposed to be Afghanistan but yeah, the parallels to Vietnam are quite eerie. Who was it that said "don't fight a land war in Asia"? I think our time in Afghanistan will wind up just like our time in Vietnam, no solid victory and no definitive defeat. the really said thing is we had the whole world's support behind us for this particular "land war in Asia". Had we stayed focused on Afghanistan, and the Taliban there that supported Al Qaeda, we would have had a chance to actually win a land war in Asia for once. Sigh! 
The way things are going there--The Taliban controls large sections of the countryside and the poppy harvest has been record-setting the past couple of years-- I have a feeling we will be back in Afghanistan in another two or three decades to deal with the mess we created this time.
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
The way things are going there--The Taliban controls large sections of the countryside and the poppy harvest has been record-setting the past couple of years-- I have a feeling we will be back in Afghanistan in another two or three decades to deal with the mess we created this time.
Isn't the Taliban a mess we helped create during the Cold War?
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Isn't the Taliban a mess we helped create during the Cold War?
Yes, although on a practical level, due to the way the relationships worked, you could say that Pakistan and the ISI were at least equally responsible during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan for directing U.S. military assistance to the more radical mujahideen (primarily because they were more effective fighters, for obvious reasons) at the expense of people like Massoud.
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Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy
Probably mint tea if it is supposed to be Afghanistan
Waitaminnit... I thought "chai" was what they called "tea" everywhere else.
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