THE UNITED STATES 'ridiculed' the Soviet Union for their activity in Afghanistan before invading the country two decades later, claimed US politics expert Professor Bill Grover.
seized the capital city of Kabul to the surprise of the US government, and the US embassy evacuated and retreated to Hamid Karzai International Airport. What followed was a frenzied evacuation process that has been likened in some quarters to when the last Americans were airlifted out of Saigon, which marked a bloody end to the Vietnam War.Yet before the US involvement in Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union occupied the country.
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