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Former KGB Colonel: It’s America’s turn to lose in Afghanistan
Published: 16 September, 2009, 02:55
Edited: 26 January, 2010, 10:13
Afghanistan, Kabul: US soldiers pray during a ceremony at Camp Eggers in Kabul on September 11, 2009 (AFP Photo/ Shah Marai)
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Former KGB Special Forces Colonel Oleg Balashov, who took part in the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan, told RT he doubts more U.S. soldiers will increase the chances of victory.
This comment comes as the U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan have doubled over the last year while the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, admitted that even more are going to be needed to defeat the Taliban.
“This war will be the same as it was in Vietnam and as the Soviet Union had in Afghanistan back in the 1980s,” said Balashov. Afghanistan “won’t let them succeed, you can’t do this to the people in this country. The Afghan population has reacted to this war as expected.”
“The Soviet troops used more human resources in the war,” he added. “The Americans are employing air attacks and in this case the number of civilian casualties is much higher.”
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I think it's pretty stupid to compare what the Soviets had to deal with compared to the US. The US is fighting a rag tag group of fighters left over from CIA/ISI camps and some local tribal fighters compared to Islamic fighters brought in from around the world, supplied by the latest high tech weapons at the time, trained by British and US special forces, an open transit route and weapons smuggling and finance to the tune of over $1 billion with what the Soviets had to deal with.
Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's WATERLOO. It would be highly unlikely that Russia would ever want a piece of Afghanistan ever again. Also, it would be unlikely that a former KGB COLONEL, who endured the defeat in Afghanistan, could offer very much in the way to victory there.