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The Forever War

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

The Cost of War in Afghanistan

Douglas Wissing was in fifth grade when 9-11 happened. The origins of the current Afghanistan war goes back to a secret CIA war against the Soviet Union, which began in 1979. After the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the US kind of lost interest in Afghanistan. A tribalized civil war broke out and that lasted from 92 to about 1996.

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