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Re:Fighting Like Taliban by MichaelGroves on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:32PM (#28280044)
> commit China-style ethnocide, or at the least institute authoritarianish high-security measures, depopulate the rural areas

The PDPA and Soviets tried this, and it didn't work. Together they killed tens of thousands of combatants and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of civilians. Millions more were displaced. And what did they get for that bloodshed? Certainly not the reform they sought.

You may as well try to crush a fistful of water.

Re:Fighting Like Taliban by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:26AM (#28286599)
The West had some influence over that, we were busy propping up the opposition.