Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Thirty years after
Soviet tanks rumbled through Afghanistan, many of them are still strewn
— wrecked and rusted — along the country's mountainsides, a reminder of
a war the Russians withdrew from in humiliation. The year was
1979. Communists had taken over the central government in Afghanistan
and were aggressively modernizing the country — and taking land and
killing landowners. Meanwhile, at the Kremlin, Leonid Brezhnev,
the head of the Communist Party, was |