Ronald Reagan: “The struggle in Afghanistan is of great strategic military importance.”

On the recordDecember 27, 1985

The struggle in Afghanistan is of great strategic military importance.

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Republican · California

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan

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