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Its become a cliche that afghanistan is not iraq, but somehow its a cliche that no one seems to absorb and take the meaning of. they are completely different countries. in iraq it wasnt just counterinsurgency with combat outposts all over baghdad. and the concentration of forces in baghdad, 30,000 troops in that city, really has a very quick security effect. 100,000 troops in this huge country of 25 million, they just disappear. the soldiers just go out into the helmand river valley, into kandah...

They came under 47 separate attacks in a three-month period, that they didnt have time to carry out the original mission. here was the bigger problem. those combat outposts in far eastern afghanistan were in the process of a transition. as general stan mcchrystal was taking over, he saw the problem with putting those soldiers at risk for very little return, and was trying to withdraw americans from those posts. and it was only three days before they were going to withdraw that this were attacked...

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