Afghanistan - DESPITE the media hype, it was very different from the US refreat from Vietnam in 1975. There were no scenes of wild IT E D
were for various reasons profoundly reluctant to take up the serious doubts over the effects of a Soviet withdrawal - and It is now clear that the causes of internationalism, marxism and communism were ser back massively by the Afghan inter- vention, which included use of landmines, napalm, cluster bombs and the most modern