... troops to leave Afghanistan sooner rather than later. While Afghanistan is not Vietnam, it is part of Asia, and there are clear similarities with Vietnam. Vietnam has been described as an organized group fighting ... previous "allies".   Afghanistan is not like the US. As a crossroad between Europe and Asia, they have endured many invaders over the centuries. Afghanistan is far ...

... the caravan routes to pray at the Kaaba and relax in the multicultural crossroad. The idolatry of the region, then, supplied the elite tribes of ... ;The roots of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Central Asia actually find their ancestors affected by Wahhabism by the late 1700s& ... of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. It is little surprise then, that the late 1960s, all of the 1970s and ...