- 20 Nov 2015 16:38
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Of course the Islamists may be saying the same thing to us European Liberals in the not too distant future.
Don't expect me to go down with the Titanic though, I think you will find Sheik Richie al Streatham, quite adept at the ideological pivot.
Potemkin wrote:The Soviet client state in Afghanistan in the 1970s and 80s was the one chance Afghanistan had to westernise itself and enter modernity, but the West itself (rather ironically) threw a spanner into the works....American aid to the Mujahedin was largely irrelevant. Sure the Wests backing of Pakistan allowed Pakistan to be a lot more aggressive in their backing but I don't think there can be any doubt that the Communist regime would have fallen perhaps a few years later. No the Mujahedin could say to the Communists at the end of the eighties:
You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
Of course the Islamists may be saying the same thing to us European Liberals in the not too distant future.
Don't expect me to go down with the Titanic though, I think you will find Sheik Richie al Streatham, quite adept at the ideological pivot.
Progressives lie scattered on Woke's highway, Diverse ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.