NPR on Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

NPR's Ivan Watson had a story on today's (June 6, 2008) All Things Considered entitled "Experts: Lessons of Soviets in Afghanistan Ignored," in which some interviewees argue that America is now making many of the same mistakes that the Soviet Union made in their invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet attack lasted ten years; the American's is just seven years old, so far.

We are facing so many relics of the Cold War. Iraq was the American proxy against the Soviet proxy of Iran. Iran had been our plaything for a while, too. Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq still dominate the headlines today.