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Gorbachev: Take It From Me, Leave Afghanistan

'No prospect' for military victory, says former Soviet president

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 10, 2009 5:01 PM CST

(Newser) – Mikhail Gorbachev—the man who pulled the Soviet Union's troops out of Afghanistan after a decade of stalemate—says the US should do the same. "There is no prospect of a military solution," he tells Bloomberg. The nation is too fragmented among clans,... Read full story »

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