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A Potemkin Peace in Afghanistan –“It Really Is A Mess”
By Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — Late last month, U.S. military units went into rural Afghanistan and took out a top al-Qaeda operative. This would be October 2020 — 19 years after U.S. troops first entered Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks, in October 2001 to do the same thing: take outRead moreIf not victory, , can there be success in Afghanistan?
WASHINGTON — If you search for the metrics to winning the war in Afghanistan, you will get plenty of results, plenty of metrics — and no victory declared. And that may be the way it will be, indefinitely. At best, the U.S. is seeking success, not victory, experts are now saying. The U.S.-led coalition isRead more