As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979.  Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security state officials was to goad the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. More

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