Is the IRAQ war a repeat of the Soviet War in Afghanistan?

No, but I did have reservations about the anti-communist hype which featured in Western Media in 1979. When the USA accepted an invitation from the government in South Vietnam, it had little to do with humanitarian feelings for the South Vietnamese, but was part and parcel of anticommunist paranoia. When the USSR accepted an invitation from the Afghan government to come to their aid, the media scorned the idea that the Red Army had been invited.

Looking back on history, you may well find that Genghis Khan failed to take Afghanistan. It is certainly true that the British Raj, Tsarist Russia and the USSR failed to have any influence on the country. Now we're looking at the same scenario.

The eventual withdrawal of USSR troops from Afghanistan was, in part, due to an uprising of Soviet mothers, who protested about their sons being killed in a war which had nothing to do with the USSR. We need more mothers like this. JpsF: I may be a 'left wing loonie', but I haven't seen a 'hippy' since I was in San Francisco in 1980, and they were looking a bit grey/gray round the edges!

At the time, I was 37. Some of us grew up, but we didn't join the Tea Party.

No, of course not. Only left wing loonies (a.k.a. "hippies") did.

Though the Rambo movies were overdoing it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.