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...events. A Soviet foreign affairs analyst told TIME'S Nelan that "it was not easy for us to make this decision, but we were committed in Afghanistan from the beginning." Employing a rationale heard frequently in Washington in the 1960s to explain the growing U.S. presence in South Viet Nam, the Soviet official added: "Whether we like it or not, we have to liva up to our commitments. We can't wash our hands of them. There was no other choice." To describe this Soviet use of military force to restore hegemony over Afghanistan, the British embassy in Moscow...
...achieving this, many analysts believe, would be to make . the current Soviet offensive in Afghanistan as difficult as possible?in short, help it become the Kremlin's version of America's Viet Nam. While the problems that would be faced by Soviet troops fighting in a country just across the Soviet border could hardly equal those confronting G.I.s embattled 10,000 miles from the U.S. (to say nothing of the Soviet regime's ability to crush all domestic antiwar criticism), the Afghanistan adventure could become more than Moscow bargained for. One thing the U.S. could do, suggests Dimitri Simes...
...What is the likelihood that Afghanistan may turn out to be the Soviet Union's Viet...
...There may be some superficial similarities between the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and our own involvement in Viet Nam. But there are also very significant differences. Afghanistan is closer to the Soviet Union than Viet Nam was to the U.S. The insurgents in Afghanistan do not have an organized government, a sanctuary, nor are they receiving billions in arms the way the Vietnamese received [aid] from the Soviet Union...
NONFICTION Dispatches by Michael Herr: highly evocative reporting about the Viet Nam War and its aftermath...