Typhoon wrote:"Nation building"
Thank you Very Much for your post, Typhoon.
1972............
Right before the King was overthrown by his cousin....
5 years later the Communists and later the Soviets took over............
But all things considered, even Soviet Eastern Europe looked better than the 2012 photo......
Have often wondered if it were possible to do it over again.........
Might have been better to have done nothing......
Or maybe to have assisted....
The Russian Bears.....
Indirectly of course.....
But no aid for Betrayer of their Benefactor Son of a Bitch Afghan Arab Al Queda Tallywacker 2 legged False Dogz........
What we have spent there other than directly bombing Osama and his Bad Boyz and their bases seems to have been wasted....
Could be wrong...............
What was bad for the Agfhans seems to have been more or less good for the East Euros............
YMix has boots on the ground and may disagree???
Hard to say.........
IIRC back then the Soviets seemed to be on a roll.......
And we had Carter who seemed to be a mostly maladroit President.....
In retrospect, largely but not completely....
Zbigniew from Poland was plotting ZeeBig
Revenge on the Russian Bears for the Dung
they did in Katyn Forest.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_B ... arly_years
Hard to say where we would be today.............
Things have been down hill in the pocket book Down in the Black Gang here in Uz.........
Since we "won"..........
Against the Bad News Bears
But things could have been worse for Uz..........
Or so it seems in 2013
For the love of G_d, consider you & I may be mistaken.
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