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Debate on the Afghan war

Comments on "Powerful people make war, ordinary folks suffer" (Dec 25, China Daily)

Comparing and labeling the Soviet-Afghan war and US-Afghan war as similar is misleading. First of all, the US had a definite reason to attack the Taliban. They refused to hand over Osama bin Laden and his acolytes after they declared war on the United States (and five years later massacred thousands).