In today’s “Best of the Web,” James Taranto pokes fun at Mikhail Gorbachev for finally admitting the obvious
about the Soviet war on Afghanistan; now, I’ll poke fun at Taranto for failing to see the obvious parallels:
The Soviet Union’s 10-year invasion of Afghanistan was a mistake, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
acknowledged on the eve of the 15th anniversary of Soviet withdrawal.
“The fact that we moved our troops into Afghanistan was a political mistake, which had to do with the Soviet
Union’s ideological approach to international policy in those years,” Gorbachev was quoted by Interfax as
saying.
“An attempt to force an extraneous social model on a country that has deep traditions of its own is always
doomed to failure,” Gorbachev said.
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