{"id":10961,"date":"2012-02-18T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2012-02-18T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:30:23","slug":"taliban-warns-us-to-learn-from-soviet-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/02\/taliban-warns-us-to-learn-from-soviet-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/a96d.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10962\" title=\"Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/a96d.jpg?resize=490%2C332\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/02\/15\/talban-taunts-u-s-on-anniversary-of-soviet-pullout-from-afghanistan\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody<\/span><\/a><\/span> decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the brink of collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">If that sounds familiar, it should, according to the Taliban\u2019s latest statement. A decade into their own bloody occupation of Afghanistan, NATO and the United States are in a bad way, and the Taliban is predicting the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/15\/us-afghanistan-taliban-soviets-idUSTRE81E1D020120215\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">same future the Russian invaders faced in the past.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Taliban statement urged the US to learn a lesson from the Soviet defeat and to stop fighting a \u201cmeaningless battle,\u201d instead withdrawing as soon as possible. They also presented the US agreement on talks as evidence of their eventual victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">El<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/02\/15\/taliban-warns-us-to-learn-from-soviet-defeat\/2012\/02\/06\/us-funded-textbooks-teach-afghan-children-whitewashed-history\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">lesson could well have been learned long ago<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> but despite Taliban confidence there is little sign NATO is \u201cgetting it\u201d in Afghanistan, as US officials negotiate to keep troops in the nation through 2024 even as they present limited power transfers to the war-weary voting public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/02\/15\/taliban-warns-us-to-learn-from-soviet-defeat\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,18,21,119],"tags":[295,228,229,197,226,273,350,351],"class_list":["post-10961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-international","category-war","tag-afghanistan","tag-colonialism","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-soviet-union-ussr","tag-united-states-history","tag-world-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soviet_10961_197ca.jpg?fit=1600%2C1085&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}