A Lost War: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson and H. R. McMaster on Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
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Do You Have a Mission in Afghanistan?
H rino: You're asking me, a civilian, military historian, to do something that the military and these administrations did not. We had people articulating what exactly we want in afghanistan,. he says. H rino: But once it becomes an issue of 'we're there to improve life for afghans' then the whole venture becomes subject to withering critiques. Rino: I think whe yore sitting up as a straw man, right? There's a lot of ground between the ideology of the talibon, which wants to thrust afghanistan back into theto the seventh century, and neo liberal ideology some elements within the us Government or non government organizations
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