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

The Realignment

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What's the Lesson From the War in Afghanistan?

The main take away, the lesson from the specifically like the afghan war, is so think of we spend 20 years entangled in viet nom and the real takeaways are, well, ike, what's not over state colonial wars versus wars of national liberlation. And when a war is being served up to people who don't know any more about it, they'd forgotten about it. The reason the war on terror and the war in afghanistan went on for 20 years was because it was designed to go on this long. It became politically very easy to perpetuate this war. Urally, if you look in a in two thousand 18, ruson put in the field

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