Popular Press
Afghanistan is America’s Second Vietnam
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay)
(2009)
Abstract
Osama bin Laden enticed us into the "Afghan trap" just as Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s foreign policy advisor, bragged: “six months before the 1978 the Soviet deployment into Afghanistan, we took the opportunity to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam to induce the Afghan trap.”
After loss of this minor war, the Soviet empire collapsed financially, morally, and that defeat encouraged its own socialist republics to break apart.
Eleven years after the Soviet exit and twenty-six days after Osama bin Laden’s 9-11 attack, our army invaded Afghanistan. Seven years later, Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, and we are deep in quagmire, as deep as Vietnam, where we won every battle and still lost a trillion dollar war. Are we doomed to re-live Vietnam in Afghanistan, a nation historians call “the graveyard of empires?”
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 29, 2009
Citation Information
Gil J. Villagran. "Afghanistan is America’s Second Vietnam" San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay) (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gil_villagran/24/