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Corey: What Afghanistan (Should) Mean to Us
Thursday, October 29, 2009Scott Corey writes a guest op-ed for IC:
The Afghanistan debate is mired in the very shortcomings that have kept us from doing well there up to now. We need a qualitative shift of policy, but we dither about metrics and troop levels. We ask ourselves if we should “get out” as if there is somewhere to go that is out of range. Meanwhile, our enemies control the political meaning of everything w...
Original article from http://www.juancole.com/2009/10/corey-what-afghanistan-should-mean-to.html
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