The West Is Repeating The Mistakes Of The Soviet
14-03-2009
It was in the year 1982. The family of Abdul Bashir was in the middle of
celebrating the wedding of a daughter. A few moments later, a bomb exploded in
the midst of the village which had a dense population, killing 30 civilians
including children and women.
"At that time I was only nine years old. It was still in the early morning, we
were preparing the wedding party of my sister, suddenly a Soviet jet fighter
battered our village," Abdul Bashir said, as reported by Reuters.
"You all could see, I had lost one of my eyes and some teeth. My relatives were
wounded. My sister, father and auntie were killed in an instant," he remembered.
"I could never forget that incidence," he continued.
Those who were saved from the bomb trained themselves to carry weapons and fight
the Soviet forces that had invaded Afghanistan since 1979, along with the
Mujahideen.
The strength of the forces of Allah combined with the civilians, helped making
Moscow pulled itself out from Afghanistan in 1989.
Twenty years after the defeat of the Soviet, the West is repeating the same
mistakes in Afghanistan.
"There have been the same mistakes in the military operations carried out by the
West in Afghanistan," Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ex-member the anti-Soviet forces,
said.
More than 455 civilian populations of Afghanistan had been killed in the
bombardments launched by the US and NATO members last year (2008), according to
the UN’s calculations.
The Same Confusion
The reliance of the West on their military strength to break the solution in
Afghanistan is exactly the same mistake as what the Soviet had done in the past.
The US considered of sending additional forces, as much as 30,000 troops, to
Afghanistan.
"Those numbers are not the solutions," a Soviet veteran, Shamil Tyukteyev, 59,
said.
"You cannot allocate a soldier to every house or a defense base at every
mountains. The more troops you send, the greater the resistance will be, that
was what we had experienced," he continued.
All along the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow had deployed around 120,000
of its troops in Afghanistan.
"It was like battling with the sand. There is no military forces in the world
that could win the war in Afghanistan," Oleg Kubanov said.
The best lesson for the West is to learn from the experience of the Soviet in
Afghanistan.
"They could never win!"
"The West must pull out before it is too late."
Submitted by a Mujahid