History is repeating

itself, in the 1980s a Mujahideen government in exile in Peshawar was conducting the war against the Soviets inside Afghanistan. Today a Taliban government in exile in Quetta is waging the war against the Americans inside Afghanistan. In both cases, Pakistan’s ISI helped the Afghan resistence.

Gen. Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, crossing on foot the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu-Daria river on 15 February 1989, the day the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan was completed. He greeted his son who welcomed him with flowers in his hands from Uzbekistan side of the border making sure no one was left behind.

I think the war in Afghanistan is over. But this time Gen. David Petraus will leave on the last helicopter from the compound of the US embassy in Kabul only the year remains to be undecided it might be 2011 or 2014.