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Defense Secretary worries about sending troops to Afghanistan.(QuickQuotes)(Secretary of Defense Robert Gates)(Brief article)
"I am more mindful than most that with 120,000 troops, the Soviets still lost because they never had the support of the Afghan people."
Referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan of 1979 that ...
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