The Soviet Union Could NOT Maintain Victory in Afghanistan
Against Guerrilla Warfare, AND Neither CAN the United States
Sustain LASTING Democratic government in Afghanistan or Iraq!
Afghanistan has for Ages Buried the dead of many foreign Powers,
And will continue to do so until Jesus returns at this Second Advent,
Jesus will cause worship of the multiplicity of world false gods to Stop,
And the City of Jerusalem Shall Be A Place of Worship for All of Mankind!
December 2, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
[20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before
him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and ALL THE FOWLS WERE FILLED WITH THEIR FLESH.
Ezekiel 39:4-8 – Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give THEE UNTO THE RAVENOUS BIRDS OF EVERY SORT, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken
it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. [8] Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Ezekiel 37:24-28 – And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. [25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Malachi 4:1-3 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave
them neither root nor branch. 2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 2:1-4 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. [2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Zechariah 14:16 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Begin Archive Excerpt 1 from The Chosun Ilbo
url: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707270025.html
Afghanistan – Graveyard of Empires
July 27, 2007
On Jan. 1, 1842, the British garrison in Kabul began to withdraw. Just three years earlier Britain had occupied Kabul, a strategic point for the defense of India, but could no longer endure the incessant killing of its senior officials and officers. During the withdrawal, a long procession of 4,000 troops and 10,000 civilians crossing snow-covered valleys and hills was ambushed by Afghan warriors. Fewer than 40 survivors reached the destination of Jalalabad.
Following this humiliating and bloody retreat, Britain again attacked Afghanistan in 1878.
This time it was to contain Russia, which had expanded its influence into Afghanistan’s northern areas while Britain withdrew. After several fierce battles, Britain occupied Afghanistan again.
And again the occupiers were slaughtered, recalling the nightmare of 40 years previous. Britain withdrew most of its forces from Afghanistan in 1880, but maintained control
of its diplomatic rights. After another war in 1919, Britain finally ceded Afghanistan self-determination in foreign affairs.
Located at the heart of Eurasia, Afghanistan has been a crossroads between East-West trade and human exchange since ancient times.
The Persian Empire under Alexander the Great invaded the region, followed in succession by the Mongols and Mughal Empire. In the 19th century, Afghanistan was the center stage of a struggle for supremacy between the British and Russian empires. Foreign troops always sustained high casualties on account of the strong resentment of local fighters and the inhospitable geography of rugged mountains and arid deserts.
Afghanistan was dubbed “the graveyard of empires,” and it lived up to that nickname again during the 10-year invasion and occupation by the Soviet Union beginning in 1979.
To support the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan which seized power in a 1978 coup, the Soviets stationed 100,000 troops in the country. After long and bloody resistance from U.S.-backed anti-government Mujahideen, or “freedom fighters”, the Soviet Union withdrew. Their sacrifice was 14,453 dead and 53,753 wounded. The disaster precipitated the collapse of the Soviet empire.
The Taliban, a group of Islamic fundamentalists that seized power in 1996, was deprived of power when it offered bases to Al Qaeda, masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks, and was subsequently attacked by U.S. forces. The Taliban, in an apparent attempt to continue Afghanistan’s long tradition of confounding foreign powers, has ceaselessly attacked foreign troops and kidnapped foreigners. Now the Taliban has kidnapped a large group of Korean volunteers, and executed one of them. They are sacrificing Korean volunteers who went to Afghanistan in order to treat Afghans suffering the ravages of war and teach them so that they may rebuild their country. Even few Afghans would regard such barbarity as a part of their struggle against foreign forces.
Begin Excerpt 2 from The Pakistan Frontier Post
November 13, 2009
“Even the Buying Out of Resistance Loyalties Would Go the Soviet Way; It Was Not Uncommon That Recipients of Money Would Turn [Their] Back on Their Soviet Paymasters”
“Even the buying out of resistance loyalties [i.e. U.S. proposal to pay the Taliban to quit fighting] would go the Soviet way. It was not uncommon that recipients of money would turn [their] back on their Soviet paymasters at once [during the 1980s]. The Americans must have indeed learnt of this from their own experiences of this foray.
Reports have surfaced in recent days that American merchants [agents out to buy Taliban’s] loyalties passed on money under the table to certain Pashtun tribal chiefs, but were then horrified seeing them leading the fight against their troops the next day. In fact, this device had not helped the Soviets in curbing the Afghan resistance; in all probability, it would be of not much avail to American occupiers either.
“Even now Obama could rethink his entire Afghanistan policy afresh. Oscillating between the options of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency would in the ultimate analysis… come to naught, as neither can reasonably hope to deliver. Karzai too would turn out a paper tiger as he has been so far.
At best, he would throw out, if at all, a few warlords from his counsels and sack some corrupt officials from his reeky administration to put the international pressures off his back. But of what effect could it be even if he packs his cabinet with spotless technocrats, when almost the whole of southern and eastern Afghanistan are out of Kabul’s writ and the entire northern and western territories are in regional warlords’ autocratic control?
“Obama would really be well off if he seeks out a negotiated peace with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, as also with Gulbadin Hekmatyar, to pacify the restive Pashtun territory and work for a grand reconciliation among Afghanistan’s ethnic and tribal divides and then leave. Otherwise, he will get stuck deeper in the quagmire with unpredictable consequences, [that] in all probability [will] all [be] hurtful to him in every manner.”
[1] The Frontier Post, Pakistan, November 13, 2009. The article has been slightly edited for clarity. The original text sites Pashtuns as Paktuns.
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