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Final-Fan on 26 May 2016
WolfpackN64 said:
Final-Fan said:

They'd been in power for about a year, since a KGB-backed coup d'etat.  So sure, they were invited in, by the guy who had just stolen the house at their behest. 

No, wait:  it's even worse than that. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
"In response to Afghan government requests, the Soviet government under leader Leonid Brezhnev first sent covert troops to advise and support the Afghan government, but on December 24, 1979, began the first deployment of the 40th Army.[31] Arriving in the capital Kabul, they staged a coup,[32] killing the Afghan President, and installing a rival Afghan socialist (Babrak Karmal).[30]

Of course, the previous government had also come to power by coup d'etat only a few years earlier, and five minutes of Google didn't show that that one was particularly due to outside meddling.  However, he certainly became chummy with the USSR pretty quickly, and they egged him on to fight with Pakistan, with generally bad results.  The US didn't intervene from what I spotted on Wikipedia until the USSR overthrew that government for not being friendly enough (the first time, not the second time) and radical communist rebels apparently killed the US ambassador.  (Some allege that instead elements of the USSR-backed government were involved, though even if this is true it doesn't necessarily mean that the whole government was involved or that the USSR knew or approved.  One senior US official called it "a tragic event which involved either Soviet ineptitude or collusion.") 

Really, the whole country got gradually destroyed by the Cold War, from both sides, but I think it's fair to say that the USSR "started it". 

Afghanistan wasn't a stable country. Tha fact that the USA only intervened when the USSR got its foot in is quite telling. Brezhnev's military was overstretched and he made a mistake pouring so many resources into the country. But that doesn't make the Socialist takeover of the country any less legitimate.

Soviet special forces stormed the residence of the President of Afghanistan, killed him, and declared someone else the new leader.  How is that legitimate? 



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WolfpackN64 on 26 May 2016
Final-Fan said:
WolfpackN64 said:

Afghanistan wasn't a stable country. Tha fact that the USA only intervened when the USSR got its foot in is quite telling. Brezhnev's military was overstretched and he made a mistake pouring so many resources into the country. But that doesn't make the Socialist takeover of the country any less legitimate.

Soviet special forces stormed the residence of the President of Afghanistan, killed him, and declared someone else the new leader.  How is that legitimate? 

That whole ordeal began with inter-party strife, which saw the first president (who was friendly to the USSR) assassinated. The rest you can probably guess.



Final-Fan on 26 May 2016
WolfpackN64 said:
Final-Fan said:

Soviet special forces stormed the residence of the President of Afghanistan, killed him, and declared someone else the new leader.  How is that legitimate? 

That whole ordeal began with inter-party strife, which saw the first president (who was friendly to the USSR) assassinated. The rest you can probably guess.

You mean intra-party strife; that's an important distinction.  Also, you are ignoring the fact that that government was less than [edit: two] year[s] old, when there was a pro-communist coup sponsored by the KGB. 

1973 - the king's brother Daoud leads a coup d'etat while the king is having surgery in Italy; almost no one is killed.  He abolishes the monarchy and becomes Presdent.  I did not see any obvious meddling from USA or USSR in the Wikipedia article. 
1978 - USSR-sponsored coup d'etat.  Anti-communist rebels fight back.  US ambassador is kidnapped and Afghans and Soviets bungle the situation leading to his death at the hands of the kidnappers.  US President is pretty pissed and relations never recover; US starts backing anti-communist rebels. 
1979 - Despite this government being willing to invite Soviet armed forces in to help against rebels, Soviet special forces kill the President, USSR installs new one.  War against rebels goes on.  The USSR withdraws in 1989, but the war goes on...



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Frank_kc on 26 May 2016

Its very simple, stop interfering in Muslims lives and they will be just fine. All the extremists existence is just a reaction to what the west is doing. Wasnt Al Qadea created by USA to fight against Russia?

Wasnt ISIS created by USA through Destroying IRAQ for false claims of WMD? Didnt they promise democracy post Saddam and then left the country to sink in the a kinda of civil war and opened the door for Iran to take control in the country and for ISIS to exist?

Lets talk about the other part, did any one hear or know about belfour Promise? A declaration by Britain in 1917 to give a Jewish state to Israel in a land which they dont own (Palestine).

You all need to read history and see why those extremist existed first before you try to figure away to stop them!!!