IP: To understand Afganistan read Engels [seems the Russians did not, hmm djf]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: "Alberto Rizzo" <arizzo@akamai.com>
> To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
> Dave: I found a very interested article on Afghanistan written by Frederick
> Engels in 1857. This could help to understand how difficult an invasion
> could be. Also explains why the English failed twice to invade them. Also
> will support the analysis made to Le Monde by a Russian veteran on
> Afghanistan, Evgueni Zelenov: "Afghanistan is not Iraq nor Yugoslavia, It's
> not a plain nor a desert, but a group of mountains accesses only by
> prohibited, chemical or biological arms".
>
> http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/afghanistan/index.htm
>
> Alberto Rizzo



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