Lessons learned, painfully, in Afghanistan after 20-year war
Afghans don’t welcome the involvement of the United States (or Russia, for that matter). Twenty years was too long to let our soldiers die for Afghan nation-building.
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Afghans don’t welcome the involvement of the United States (or Russia, for that matter). Twenty years was too long to let our soldiers die for Afghan nation-building.
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