CNNW The Eighties July 7, 2018
In afghanistan today, soviet troops are reported on the move in several areas, but it is also clear the russians are meeting resistance from muslim tribes men and units of afghanistans army. In 1980 the soviet union had moved into afghanistan. It was in anything raak nicarag. It was in the caribbean. There was a feeling, and i felt it, that the United States could lose the cold war. There was a model of behavior during the cold war, and the way i often described it, it was the red side of the map and blue side of the map, separated by the iron curtain. And the rest of the world we competed for...