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->''"Had it not been for the jihad, the whole world would still be in the Communist grip. The Berlin Wall fell because of the wounds which we inflicted on the Soviet Union, and the inspiration we gave all oppressed people. We broke the Soviet Union up into fifteen parts. We liberated people from Communism. Jihad led to a free world. We saved the world because Communism met its grave here in Afghanistan!"''
-->--'''Burhanuddin Rabbani''', President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan ([[TheAlliance Northern Alliance]]), in 2002
-->--'''Burhanuddin Rabbani''', President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan ([[TheAlliance Northern Alliance]]), in 2002
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->''"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would...That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter "We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its VietnamWar.""''
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->''"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would...That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter "We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its VietnamWar.UsefulNotes/VietnamWar.""''
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-->--'''Zbigniew Brzezinski''', National Security Adviser to JimmyCarter, talking in 1998
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->We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would...That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We Carter "We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its VietnamWar."
