re: #5 Destro

Yea, Afghanistan would have been better off under Soviet secular rule rather than the influence of those nut jobs in Pakistan.

God, you’re a blast from the past. I haven’t heard this much shilling for the Soviet Empire since the 1980s.

Are you normally in favor of nations taking up the White Man’s Burden and bringing civilization at gunpoint to the savage natives, or is this just special because it’s Russia?