SIR – When asking our history master at school why we should study history we were told that one of the points of studying history was that we should not make the same mistakes over and over again.
It was not too long ago that the Russians were kicked out of Afghanistan by Islamic forces who then had the backing of the West.
Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire
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