A GPS Special: The Fall of Kabul, One Year Later
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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Afghanistan - The Psychology of a Very Long Term War
The material we used to build everything. An experience i had freed both in a rock and in afghanistan. As at every war i've ever arrived at, i have assumed that i was arriving at the end of the war, only to later recognize that i had ar arrived at the beginning. So yes, 20 years is a very long time to fight a war. But anywhere on that 20 year time line, the united states was between 18 and 24 months from a major troop withdrawal. And so the psychology of a very long term war is, in fact, a very short term psychology.
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