Afghanistan
Sir,—M. Creel must be close to a century — a century of repetitions of his same feeble attempt to justify unjustifiable Russian behaviour in Afghanistan. Last month I got a letter from a Fiji Indian friend. He long returned
from an all-expenses-paid trip to Russia. Twenty-five years ago his Marxist brother, a charismatic leader with a large following, openly talked of being “the Castro of Fiji.” In 1968 he told me he had turned down an offer of money and weapons from Russia for an armed insurrection in Fiji. Had he not done so, and had the Russians dared to do what they have done in Afghanistan — had they dared to bomb Fijian villages — that, by M. Creel’s peculiar logic, would not have been Russian aggression. It would simply have been aid to an ally.—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. April 30, 1984.
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