Taliban Rise From Afghan Chaos
3,251 views · Published 6 October 2009 · 2:46 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: CBS News · 2009 · News & Politics
There's a reason Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires." No superpower has ever won a war there. The Russians tried - which is how the U.S. first got involved, Katie Couric reports.
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