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• Especially religiously devote pakistan tried to overthrow soviet rule, US and france supported them (sending military assitance)

• US enjoyed watching soviet union take pummel like htem in vitenam war

• John Rambo, film to show him as a vietnam sucessful veteren. Myth

• Vicaruosly enjoy costs of soviet union, subsiting afghanstian for norht vietnam and mujadeen south vietnam

  • drew via rambo movie scenes

• president enjoys wide discretion in matters of national security

• Presidents behavior based on habits and norms, not written down, studied in class (can look at what happened)

• Why agressive in some countries and not others?

• hisotry does not have inherit structure but we can ibmue it with it by analyzing it.

• Irony - US supported freedom operation became most costly

• obama admistration showed could get things done without groud trooops

• Afghanistan - relearning lessons of vietnam

• No radically change to US posture in south asia

  • foriegn policy patterns appears to be sticking around

• US trend for foriegn policy restraint (and pulling allies in that direction)

  • welcome change, uncertain tho, (US does keep forgetting)

• Americans no safer at home than they already were!