A GPS Special: The Fall of Kabul, One Year Later
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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What Was Your Sense of the Talabana in the War in Afghanistan?
I felt like we were fighting for a vision of what afghanistan could be as a more a modern country, a meano. And i also as though i was fighting for my own country. The talaban seemed to demonstrate a sense of not only tactical, but also operational patience that worked to their advantage. I would say was the single greatest determinate of their ability to win this war. If you were ambushed by the taliban, there was a discipline that they had to only stay on sight for 30 minutes because they knew that our aircraft would show up after 30 minutes. Nd, this spoke to that type of operational patients, that type of pragmatism, that was
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