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| Recent News From Afghanistan Is Grim but All Is Not Lost |
| 2015-12-24 |
| Retired military tries out his new act at the Puffington Host. There is no shortage of bad news from Afghanistan over the past several months. The brief occupation of Kunduz, a small city in northern Afghanistan, started a cycle of negative events: the accidental bombing by allied forces of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz; a series of car bombs in the capital, Kabul; a revived Taliban campaign to retake portions of southern Afghanistan; a deputy district governor of Sangin district in Helmand province taking to Facebook to alert President Ashraf Ghani of the danger in the south. As I understand it, the Taliban now control Helmand and are advancing in other provinces as well. As Oprah would say, how do you feel about Afghanistan today? Most would say pretty discouraged. But let's take a deep breath and put a couple of things in perspective. If your central strategy is to impose Peace and Love in Afghanistan, I'd say we are witnesses to folly, rather than being discouraged. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 So stupid, press trying to make light of this. They are horrible. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-12-24 23:54 |
| #2 Methinks the White House has already written them off. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-24 11:11 |
| #1 You can still lose the lives on the American servicemen stationed there? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-24 08:34 |