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From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing)
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Subject: Re: RE: Mike Kelly on Afghanistan and reality
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 08:12:45 EDT
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> You missed my point.  Soviet foreign policy is to surround the USSR
> with satellites and exploit advantages.  Afghanistan is not an indication
> of some mythical yearning for a warm water port, as the conservatives had
> us believe in 1979.   Rather, it was a chance for the Soviets to consolidate
> their leadership in what was already a satellite.  Chances are those who 
> suggested going in have long since fallen from power within the USSR, since
> it was at least a bad miscalculation.
> 
> One needs to look at reality, not rhetoric.  
> 
> Mike Kelly

Just to look at reality for a change:
1) Soviet foreign policy is to surround EVERYTHING with satellites.
2) Afghanistan was a souvereign monarchy, now it is a base for Soviet
   troops and Soviet expansion. It is a step in strategy aimed at
   world domination.
3) Who's "fallen from power"?!! Chernenko is Brezhnev's protege, there
   were no big shakeups in Soviet government. "Chances are" the
   resistance will be squelched, and the bemedaled veterans of the
   war will be sent on to Pakistan and other places.
4) Miscalculation or not, they've moved closer to Persian gulf, hence
   closer to your pocket and throat.
             
And that's real.                             Mike Musing