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Chinook Down! Deja Vu

chinuck helicopterHow much Amercian hypocrisy can be fit into one paragraph?

Nine soldiers are dead as the result of a CH-47 Chinook being shot down in Afganistan recently. It is believed it was caused by Taliban insurgents with a standard RPG rocket launcher. Not long ago the United States refused to attend the Moscow Olympics because the Russians were fighting a war against the Taliban in Afganistan. Wow hey. It was said the 10 year war was the Soviet Union’s Vietnam. The Russians pulled out after the United States made hand held surface to air missles available to Osama Bin Laden and his Al Queda/Taliban "freedom fighters", who were then able to shoot down Russian helicopters at will.