By Pepe Escobar
Afghanistan is not only the graveyard of empires; it's a graveyard of misconceptions.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden believed that the mujahideen single-handedly defeated the Soviet empire; so a more compact mujahid band, al-Qaeda, would be the vanguard in defeating the American empire. It was never that simple.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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