Monday, 29 November 2010

Afghanistan Starting to Feel a Lot Like Vietnam

James Traub, NY Mag
For the millions of Americans who opposed the war in Iraq, including Barack Obama, Afghanistan was the good war - "The War We Need to Win," as candidate Obama titled a key foreign-policy speech he gave in August 2007. Iraq, Obama said, was a sickeningly misguided gift to Osama bin Laden: “a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.” Iraq posed no threat to American national security; Afghanistan and Pakistan did. Obama vowed to wind down the war we didn’t need to win in order to ramp up the one we did....

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