ere be no foreign troops to become targets for any resistance fighters. The rebels also insist there will be no repetition of what American analyst Kenneth Pollack describes as "a set of horrific circumstances created by an almost inconceivable parade of American mistakes" in Iraq. The rebels have pointedly ru

l Street Journal. II December 2001. hap://www.cacianalyst.org/Publications/Russia's%20Ominous%20Afgha n%20Gambit.htm. Accessed 10 May 2012. 43 See Kenneth Pollack, The Persian Pu=le. The Conflict Between America and the US, New York: Random House. 2005, pp.345 to 347. 46 See Barbara Slavin, 'A Broken Engageme