- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Glenn-leong http://glenn-leong.instablogs.com/ - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://glenn-leong.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:49:27 +0000 Obama borrows Soviets Afghan endgame http://glenn-leong.instablogs.com/entry/obama-borrows-soviets-afghan-endgame/ http://glenn-leong.instablogs.com/entry/obama-borrows-soviets-afghan-endgame/ Glenn

The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet war there 20 years ago, when a modern army was humbled by small guerrilla bands and the invaders struggled to prop up an unpopular government in Kabul. But...

]]> The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet war there 20 years ago, when a modern army was humbled by small guerrilla bands and the invaders struggled to prop up an unpopular government in Kabul.

But comparisons like these, often cited by critics of President Barack Obama’s planned surge, have emphasized similarities while ignoring key differences in the position of the Soviet Union then and the U.S. and NATO today. A close reading of history suggests there is still a chance that the allies can succeed where the Soviet Union failed.

While more than 850 members of the U.S. military have died as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, those losses still represent a fraction of 14,500 Soviet deaths in Moscow’s Afghan adventure.

During the 10 years the U.S.S.R. fought in Afghanistan, the country was a Cold War battleground, pitting a Kremlin-backed atheist government against Muslim fighters clandestinely supported by the U.S., Pakistan, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia.

By the late 1980s, the U.S. and the others were supplying the rebels with everything from transport mules to advanced weaponry, including the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles that played a crucial role in neutralizing Soviet air power.

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Canadian phone customers will get partial rebates worth hundreds of millions of dollars after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed high-profile appeals Friday, one from Bell and Telus and the other from consumer...

]]> Canadian phone customers will get partial rebates worth hundreds of millions of dollars after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed high-profile appeals Friday, one from Bell and Telus and the other from consumer groups.

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A study by researchers at Toronto’s University Health Network found that a compound in tumeric — a spice used in cooking in many parts of the Middle East and Asia — may dramatically reduce the risk of developing heart...

]]> A study by researchers at Toronto’s University Health Network found that a compound in tumeric — a spice used in cooking in many parts of the Middle East and Asia — may dramatically reduce the risk of developing heart failure.

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