The Lessons of Afghanistan War

Americans must understand that any armed group that comes to Afghanistan is doomed to defeat because the whole population of Afghanistan will fight with them - said in an interview with El País veteran of Afghanistan, now Russia's State deputy Franz Klintsevich. It has been 30 years, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Russians are watching the actions of the coalition at this war. They remember their experience and their mistakes. According Klintsevich, coalition forces now repeat some mistakes of the Soviet Union but their main mistake is that they went into Afghanistan. The army can not control the entire population. The only way to win - to destroy the country. Any other way is doomed to failure. So they should step back and realize that victory can be achieved only by working with the population. All that they need to do is to change the ideology and improve the economy of Afghanistan.

According Klintsevich, the decision to invade Afghanistan was made because of the geostrategic interests of the State. Another veteran of Afghan, Vladimir Vshivtsev convinced that there were no alternative to this decision. If the Soviet Union would not get involved - americans would try to take the power in Afghanistan and use it against USSR. Afghanistan has a 3000km border with Soviet Union and we could not let the Washington take over that country.

According Klintsevich, and the USSR and the United States contributed to the emergence of terrorism in Afghanistan and today we get what we deserved. Today the problem of Afghanistan is that the whole generations of young people grew up at war. They only know how to fight, and the worst thing that they got used to it and do not want anything else.

Nato would have to leave this country. And the the Karzai government will last much less than the one that we left. Americans will leave the country without victory. At the same time he acknowledges thet there is should be troops in Afghanistan: "If we do not deal with the Taliban, they will take us."- Klintsevich said. Their fundamentalism is going to affect the Arab world and Central Asia. They will becoma a danger to all the world.

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