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Originally Posted by S-2
My comments began w/ my mini-thesis of a useful strategic doctrine. I don't see a functional difference in our desires given your examples even though I disagree that Afghanistan is a completely counter-productive endeavor distracting from some greater purpose.
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The US support to Afghan allies in the Soviet-Afghan War was a productive endeavour; its worth was in the distractive and irritating effect it had on the Soviets. That chapter was closed in 1988. I was referring to different types of US allies in the Cold War time-frame.