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TLAM Strike
02-21-11, 11:08 AM
Afghanistan... circa 1950... (http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/10/once-upon-a-time-in-afghanistan/)

:hmmm:
Gerald
02-21-11, 11:11 AM
Afghanistan... circa 1950... (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/Must%20see%20photos%20of%20Afghanistan)

:hmmm: There is something fishy about the link, where is the origin for the link? :yep:
TLAM Strike
02-21-11, 11:13 AM
fixed, thax... :03:
Gerald
02-21-11, 11:15 AM
fixed, thax... :03: :DL
Gerald
02-21-11, 11:19 AM
Nice shots,very Western-oriented country was in the days after WWII
Herr-Berbunch
02-21-11, 11:45 AM
Some good pics there. I can see some appearing in the Photo captions - 2010 thread right about now... :D
krashkart
02-21-11, 11:47 AM
Great find! Changes my perspective quite a bit. :up:
Jimbuna
02-21-11, 12:57 PM
Some good pics there. I can see some appearing in the Photo captions - 2010 thread right about now... :D

Yep....got a few in mind :DL
Freiwillige
02-21-11, 05:40 PM
Am I the only one who noticed that the Army is wearing German Army helmets circa WWII?
TLAM Strike
02-21-11, 06:31 PM
Am I the only one who noticed that the Army is wearing German Army helmets circa WWII?
and carrying WWII era Soviet Rifles, LMGs and SMGs. :03:
gimpy117
02-21-11, 07:29 PM
the cold war basically destroyed that country. We backed the taliban...and guess what happened.
Freiwillige
02-21-11, 11:22 PM
the cold war basically destroyed that country. We backed the taliban...and guess what happened.

Taliban 1
Humanity O
Freiwillige
02-21-11, 11:31 PM
Actually we backed the Mujahideen against the Soviet backed Democratic republic of Afghanistan.

The Taliban didn't come into power until the 90's and what was left of the loosely based Mujaheddin groups that were not destroyed by the Taliban formed the Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban until US invasion.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Mujahideen#Afghanistan
gimpy117
02-22-11, 12:27 AM
whoops. well anyways. my cold war statement still stands...jut not the backing part
Tribesman
02-22-11, 04:35 AM
Actually we backed the Mujahideen against the Soviet backed Democratic republic of Afghanistan.


The Taliban are Mujahideen.
joegrundman
02-22-11, 05:35 AM
the taliban were not a major mujahideen force. After the USSR pulled out, the US walked away, really quite happy with a job well done in destroying any chance of a stable communist country in favour of a weapon ridden land of total chaos, backwardism and lawlessness.

Since Pakistan had been the vital link (and also major contributor in its own right) in the support for the Mujahideen, and since Pakistan continued to be Aghanistan's neighbour while the US expected never to have to think about that country again, the US was happy for Pakistan's favoured group, the Taliban, to come to dominance. The US was happy about this on the grounds that any dominant group that assembled something resembling a state was an improvement on the prevailing chaos and lawlessness since the Soviet retreat. In particular, a government could be negotiated with in order to curtail heroin production, which was then the only concern that the US still had in Afghanistan.