Afghanistan Crisis! The Real Challenge to America's Global Credibility! By Hafeez Hassanabadi
Afghanistan Crisis! The Real Challenge to America's Global Credibility! By Hafeez Hassanabadi It happened many times in history when countries and nations competed well in the front-line battleground and secured the victory but they lost their battle at the table. The defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan was exactly of the same pattern. The Soviet troops along with the Afghan forces were 80% victorious but they were defeated by Gorbachev and Yeltsin at the negotiation table. Many Russian generals today say with great sadness and sometimes with embarrassment that what Gorbachev and Yeltsin did to Dr. Najibullah was shameful [betrayal]. Had Vladimir Putin been in the place of them at the time, the United States and Pakistan wouldn’t have violated the Geneva accords by helping the Mujahideen, and the Russians would not have left Dr. Najibullah alone in such a way that his planes and tanks would stand idle due to lack of oil. That one-sided disloyalty tore a...