Red Kabul revisited - Are the US rulers of Afghanistan at last adopting the agenda of their Soviet predecessors?

Interesting piece here pointing out that many Afghanis look back on the period following the Soviet invasion as a kind of golden age - and that the US rulers are currently getting a lot of brownie points because, in all kinds of ways, their regime is doing more or less the same things as the Soviets did. (In face of much the same kind of opposition.)

Funny old world, isn't it?