Afghanistan: neither Vietnam nor Iraq, but closer home perhaps – Reuters Blogs (blog)

Posted on 11 November 2009

Foreign Policy Afghanistan: neither Vietnam nor Iraq, but closer home perhaps Reuters Blogs (blog) Clearly, Afghanistan cannot be compared with Vietnam or Iraq beyond a point. The history, geography, the culture and the politics are just too different.

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3 Responses to “Afghanistan: neither Vietnam nor Iraq, but closer home perhaps – Reuters Blogs (blog)”

  1. Loorserm says:
    December 12, 2009 at 8:36 am

    mm.. amazing post :) )

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  2. SF says:
    December 18, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    huh. informative thoughts..

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  3. AOV says:
    December 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm

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