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    Bacevich also writes, "Fixing Afghanistan is not only unnecessary, it's also likely to prove impossible." He minimizes the presumptive success of the surge in Iraq, ''an utterly needless war," by pointing out Gen. Raymond Odierno, our fifth commander in Baghdad, has warned "the insurgency is likely to drag on for another five, 10, or 15 years." Full Article at CJOnline
    Fixing Afghanistan is not only unnecessary, it's also likely to prove impossible.
    – Andrew Bacevich SOURCE: CJOnline 3 weeks ago
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  1. a cheaper, and more efficient alternative to the establishment of a large-scale and long-term ground presence -- which, as the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated, has the unintended effect of handing jihadists a recruiting tool they are quick to exploit.
    SOURCE: CJOnline 3 weeks ago
  2. We are going to get a new president and by nearly all measures that is good. He, however, will not get a new nation. He gets us as we are today, swamped in debt and set on a military course of world domination that we can neither support nor sustain.
    SOURCE: CJOnline 3 weeks ago

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