Leftists shrug. Again.
An underground prison containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in Afghanistan.
The prison, a former military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, dates from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, officials say.
A senior police officer in Kabul says that many of the bodies were found blindfolded with arms tied.
The find was revealed by a 70-year-old Afghan who worked for the Russians and only recently returned to the country.
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“There are at least 15 rooms full of dead bodies,” he said, adding that as the base was large there could be further rooms yet to be discovered underground.
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The underground prison is the second Soviet-era mass grave to be found near the capital.
In 2006, a grave was discovered by Nato-led forces near the capital’s notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison.
So, it was really terrible of the US to have helped the Mujahadeen, and the blowback was well deserved.
That beats a club gitmo t-shirt anyday.
So, it was really terrible of the US to have helped the Mujahadeen, and the blowback was well deserved.
Of course! Anyone in the pay of the true evil empire of Amerikkka is an enemy of the people.
/international a.n.s.w.e.r.
huh?!
Seems like lots of merchandise needs freshening these days.
Yes, I love that convenient um….forgetfulness of the Soviet invasion and OCCUPATION!!11!! which led to US involvement in Afghanistan in the first place. Never a mention of who we were fighting or why.
I’m sure any torture that took place in the death rooms was progressive.
That sounded petulant, about the freshening.
Another example of the fatuousness of the complaints about Gitmo. Grow up shine.
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Comment by shine on 7/6 @ 6:17 pm #
That beats a club gitmo t-shirt anyday.
Ah. The muslim cleric school of logic, I see.
Huh. My favorite NCO used to come in once a week with some sort of new bone or such having poked up out of the dirt on the base I was at…well, the landmines did too – but we never had the Chaplain say a word over them and rebury them.
The Russians have been trying for years to piece together the extent of communist disaster. Here are some lists of victims, in Russian. You can translate the page to googlish, you know how.
Sometimes I think Reagan — of blessed and righteous memory — was hyperbolic when we called the Soviet Union “the Evil Empire”. But realizing the extent of the damage, destruction, and death it wrought throughout the world, I cannot help but think he was spot on.
I think we continue to underestimate the evil that accompanies socialism and communism.
Afghanistan was always a problem for the Lefties I knew back in academia, during the 1980s.
The most interesting claim was that the Soviets had gone into Afghanistan in order to liberate it from its old ways, i.e., help modernize it. Thus, the number of women doctors, etc., was cited.
This is amusing, not least b/c some of those same folks today would deny any such justification to, say, Iraq and the number of schools that have re-opened.
More to the point, if you were to then ask if the Chinese would be justified in using such arguments about, say, Tibet (which they do), back then, you got some mumbling, but today, the answer would be “NO.” Why not? Because they’re not really Communist any more (or, as one person noted, “even successful communes have been closed down by the Dengists”).
Being Left means never having to say you’re sorry—because you were never, ever wrong.