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Moscow's short, hot summer is threatening to bring an early autumn chill to Kabul. Facing economic and political collapse at home, the Kremlin is reviewing its largesse abroad. Boris Yeltsin openly opposes continuing aid to Afghan President Najibullah, and Mikhail Gorbachev, who discovered several proponents of continued support among those who plotted to overthrow him, is likely soon to pull the plug...
...while soldiers as young as 13 have sworn allegiance to Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N. is an equal-opportunity guerrilla group, one of the few to allow young girls to bear arms alongside the boys...
...same token, Bush could send ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kabul, Luanda, Havana and Hanoi to engage the leaders there constructively rather than treating them like avatars of Moscowcentric world communism, a phenomenon that no longer exists. For the U.S. to stop & withholding or hedging recognition of those regimes would be a big step toward recognizing how much the world is changing...
Afghanistan. Of all Moscow's Third World client states, only Afghanistan shares a Soviet border. Hence, it is the sole client to pose an immediate security problem. That fact helps explain Moscow's continued patronage for the Najibullah regime in Kabul, despite the Soviet withdrawal of its occupying forces from Afghanistan a year ago. Moscow's fear is that the country could become a springboard for Islamic revolutionaries eager to penetrate Soviet Central Asia. By U.S. Government estimates, Moscow's concern translates into a monthly dole of $200 million to $300 million, most of it in military assistance...
...they expect us to forget 1956, 1968 or 1979? Do they really think we can ignore the tanks in Budapest, in Prague, in Kabul? No, Quayle tells the talk-show audiences, it is going to take a lot more than glasnost to erase his memory...