{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"America Entered Afghanistan as a Superpower\/It Exits Exhausted","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article76279.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article76279.html'\u003EAmerica Entered Afghanistan as a Superpower\/It Exits Exhausted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnly a policy of true Afghan independence (i.e., Fortress Afghanistan) will protect the nation. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n  As last week\u2019s financial crisis highlights, the United States is broke, drifting and divided.  It is a far cry from the Superpower that invaded Afghanistan in 2001.  The comparison is to Russia which invaded Afghanistan in 1979, only to retreat in 1988 in financial ruin and near collapse.  The difference is that Russia possesses vast mineral and oil wealth, and therefore has been able to (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}