Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly accused the Soviet Union of conducting chemical warfare by proxy in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. According to the State Department, the Soviet Union was manufacturing substances with the highly toxic chemical tricothecene mycotoxin and selling it to its allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would...
Cohen:No, there's absolutely no comparison whatsoever between the U.S. invasion of Grenada and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan First there's such a discrepancy in size that it is ludious. Secondly, when the Soviets entered Afghanistan hundreds of thousands of refugees field the country, civilians were gassed villages were destroyed and the whole population has been obliterated. There was an enormous amount of cruelty. By contrast with the U.S. invasion of Grenada. I don't think we're going to be there for very long. [The Soviets] are still in Afghanistan. We're going to be leaving behind...
...Russians. But normally America projects itself as a government that works by the law that recognizes some kind of international morality. We all heard of this in the case of the Russian barbarians shooting down of the plane. We heard it even more in the case of Afghanistan, right? America was on strong moral grounds there. It squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point...
...advisors, it was dubbed a lucky break and officials declared that the size of the Cuban presence, earlier referred to in an offhand manner, came as surprise. One can only remember, with a certain strong sense of embarrassment, the statement by the Russians that they were "invited in" to Afghanistan and Poland...
...Administration knew of the Cuban presence on the island and used the protection of Americans as an excuse to engage the Cubans, topple an unfriendly regime, and ultimately install a puppet government. Such tactics are usually associated with the Soviet Union-for example, in connection with the invasion of Afghanistan. And at least the Soviets can claim Afghanistan is of essential strategic importance to them. Grenada-as Marxist two weeks ago as it is now-hardly constitutes a danger to U.S. security. By invading Grenada, we've lost a large chunk of the moral high ground we held...