Robert Gates in Afghanistan

What's Past is Present
There is an irony to Gates' mission in Afghanistan: it was he who led the effort in the 1980's to support the anti-Soviet
Lynsey Addario / VII Network for TIME

What's Past is Present
There is an irony to Gates' mission in Afghanistan: it was he who led the effort in the 1980's to support the anti-Soviet Mujahedeen, some of whom have since morphed into America's worst enemies.

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