OT: NY Times & American Conservative on Afghanistan: GET OUT!

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Posted by david7gable@aol.com on January 8, 2009, 12:53 am
 
As a friend of mine just wrote to me, not entirely hyperbolically,
“Afghanistan is where empires go to die, and it's the real reason the
USSR collapsed.”  Here are an Op-Ed piece from the NY Times and an
article from The American Conservative.  Their recommendation re:
Afghanistan?  GET OUT!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7vwar5

“The Afghan Quagmire”
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times, January 5, 2009

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jul/28/00006/

“Losing Afghanistan”
By Leon Hadar
Prolonging this good war may be worse than persisting in the bad one
in Iraq.
July 28, 2008 Issue

-david gable


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