Lessons Learned

Lessons learned? 25 years since Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan By 1989, during the height of Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, and in the midst of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Soviet involvement in Afghanistan seemed downright grotesque. Over 12 years later, following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, the US invaded Afghanistan with a more seemly justification of dismantling the radical Taliban regime. Grotesque ? Soviets entered afghanistan only because they were called by afghan government because afghan government was not able to cope up with the islamist terrorists usa was importing into afghanistan from saudi arabia. One of them was called osama bin laden. 1. Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner. 2. Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance Published time: February 15, 2014 11:08 Get short URL Red Army soldiers cross the Amu Darya river at the Soviet-Afghan border in Termez on February 15, 1989 during Soviet Army withdrawal from Afghanistan. (AFP Photo / Vitaly Armand) Red Army soldiers cross the Amu Darya river at the Soviet-Afghan border in Termez on February 15, 1989 during Soviet Army withdrawal from Afghanistan. (AFP Photo / Vitaly Armand) n. The restructuring of the Soviet economy and bureaucracy that began in the mid 1980s.