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Afghanistan
What are we really doing there? I understand the reasoning for going in to get Bin Laden and knocking out the training camps.
Our being there has kept the Taliban out allowing a freer country,
and that's all good.
However, the country is run by a corrupt government with it's main
economy growing poppy. Imho they need to decide to defend themselves
if they want this freedom.
I can see our roll in traning their military and using special forces, air strikes and drones to knock out camps etc. but we need to learn from
the history of the Russians fighting in that terrain. Never learned from the French about fighting in the Vietnam terrain either.
Petraeus is a great general ,and I have complete convidence in our troops, but tying their hands with this administration saying we will be out in a year is crazy.
While I have mixed feelings, if it's possible to win, the current poltical actors need to stay out of it.
What say you?
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