Two mistakes, 30 years apart
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/post-2928/It is fitting that President Obama announced his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan on the 30th anniversary of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s decision to do the same. The two events are joined at the hip. In 1978, the Afghan army overthrew the existing government and made the head of the country’s Communist Party… Continue reading