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| Mikhail Gorbachev |
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, in an interview with British newspaper, The Independent on Sunday, says Britain should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Mr Gorbachev became President after Soviet forces had occupied Afghanistan, and oversaw the eventual withdrawal of troops in 1989. He points out that Britain advised against the Soviet invasion, saying the Afghans are a special people who live by their own rules, and that Britain should now heed its own advice.
And, in comments that risk provoking outrage in the US, he portrays the war against Islam as a conflict partly of the US's own making.
"It's called the historical and political boomerang," he says, referring to the US's secret funding of Islamic extremists during the 1980s, when the Americans were fighting communism. "[The Americans] were working in secret with those forces with whom they are now fighting. They should accept their part of the blame."
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