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273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan

The Realignment

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The Two Thousand 11 Status of Forces Agreement

i like how you frame this as a emotional answer. Because for backgrownd's sake, we leave a rack in two thousand 11 a via because we couldn't secure longer term status of forces agreement with the araki government. But i would argue that that is not the reason we left roc ahsoid if we wanted to satis a forces agreement with a rock, we can get a status of forces agreements with a rock. I mean, the real reason we left aroc was itical decision. Was a domestic political decision. We left. In two thousand 11, president o bom was up for re election. He had woned run in two thousand eight, very clearly

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