De l’URSS aux USA, via Kaboul
Il est vrai que les chiffres et le symbole sont remarquables. Les précisions que nous donne Mark Ames, de AlterNet, le 5 septembre 2009, nous suggèrent effectivement un terrible symbole. Aujourd’hui, le contingent US en Afghanistan dépasse de 5.000 hommes le contingent soviétique en Afghanistan (de 1980 à 1988). «America now has more military personnel in Afghanistan than the Red Army had at the peak of the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. According to a Congressional Research Service report, as of March of this year, the U.S. had 52,000 uniformed personnel and another 68,000 contractors in Afghanistan a number that has likely grown… De l’URSS aux USA, via Kaboul