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The Real Scandal: Americans Don’t Care About Afghanistan

Posted by M. C. on July 30, 2017

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-real-scandal-americans-dont-care-about-afghanistan/

Will kids who weren’t yet born when the war began have to fight it ?

Here, it seems to me, we confront the real scandal. It’s not simply that six months into the Trump administration there is no strategy to guide U.S. actions in Afghanistan, although that is bad enough. It’s that so few Americans care. They don’t know why U.S. forces are in Afghanistan, what they are doing there, how long they will remain, and whether or not they are accomplishing anything beneficial either to the United States or to the people of Afghanistan.

I don’t think the government know why it is in the Graveyard of Empires either.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Botched US Drone Strike Kills 15 Afghan Police – News From Antiwar.com

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2017

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/07/21/botched-us-drone-strike-kills-15-afghan-police/

The US has tried to bolster the Afghan government in Helmand Province with air support in their fighting against the Taliban, but the support appears to have gone horribly wrong today, as a US drone attacked and killed at least 15 Afghan police.
And this just what we have heard about, too high profile to cover up. 

Tell me again, when Afghanistan or the Taliban ever attack US?

What are we doing over there besides making everything worse? Time to go.

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