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The Soviets' Vietnam

April 22, 1988 | Richard Cohen | Copyright

Pity the poor Soviet conservative (or, if there is such a thing, neoconservative.) Russian troops are scheduled to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan this year. For the first time since Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, communism may lose a nation that was in its grasp. The Soviet conservative has an unenviable task: he has to determine who lost Afghanistan.

By comparison, the American conservative has it easy. When it comes to figuring out who lost Vietnam, he shops a mall of scapegoats-the press, left-wing intellectuals, irresponsible students, naive actresses, an irresolute Congress and, of course, the "San Francisco Democrats" of Jeane Kirkpatrick's vivid …

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