Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia's Former President and Leader [Getty Images]

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, straightens his tie during an interview in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Gorbachev, drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can't win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers. Photographer: Jochen Eckel/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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