Sounds Like

Published: August 30, 2007, 6:20 am

Tags: canada, canadian armed forces, hillier, afghanistan, harper, soviet union, russia

A collection of sound bites on Afghanistan....then and now."What will happen if we withdraw now "Soviets in 1980s"Recently one can often hear that we 'betrayed' [our] Afghan friends [by withdrawing from Afghanistan] and that, after the withdrawal of Soviet troops, we are not interested anymore in the fate of Afghanistan." (Sovetskaya Rossiaya, 14 April 1990)"Continuation, and even escalation, of fighting after the withdrawal of Soviet troops " (Minister of Defence of Afghanistan general Sh. Tanai, Izvestiya, 8 September 1989)Canadians now" pulling troops out of Kandahar would simply open the door to another Taliban takeover. There is also a real danger that the return of the Taliban would lead to civil war..." "unwillingness to grapple with the consequences of withdrawing troops seems common, if not endemic, among those opposing the war . In the face of the Taliban's history of cruelty, MacDonald argued that withdrawing troops would be a betrayal. But before raising

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