Afghanistan…Empire Graveyard
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The 3 rules of Real Estate: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
I pity Afghanistan…in the wrong place for 3,ooo years…
Gateway between Stupid White Men in Europe and the rest of the known world.
The Afghanistan quagmire has swallowed so many great Empires.
The Greeks…2340 years ago:
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Alexander the Great conquered Afghanistan in 330 BCE, but after 25 years of occupation The Turks kicked his ass to the curb and soon after the Greek Empire collapsed.
The Great Roman Empire invaded and began an occupation of Afghanistan in the the first century AD, but in 220 Parthian Persia vassal, Ardashir, kicked their ass to the curb and thus began the fall of the greatest Empire in history.
In 1219 Genghis Khan invaded and occupied Afghanistan with the same result.
MODERN HISTORY: After WWII there were only two great empires: The United States and Russia.
In the 1980s the commies put all their chips on the table and Reagan matched them with $3,000,000,000 of our tax dollars to Osama bin Laden and his warlord Taliban buddies in Afghanistan. And then, Ronnie raised the bet by forcing Saudi Arabia to throw another $3,000,000,000 into the pot. Russia went bust and bin Laden became a superstar.
Today America is posed to wage a full scale occupation of Afghanistan…Will our fate be any different than the Greeks, the Roman Empire, the Huns or the Russians?
Those who do not know history are doomed to relive it. George Santayana OR:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
Published by Nick at 07:48 AM on October 4, 2002