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A Lost War: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson and H. R. McMaster on Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future

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Afghanistan Was Not the Abnormality of the Aberration

In two thousand one, i think a lot of people thought afghanistan was a bad war. But if you just look at it historically, afghanistan is always much harder in a country like a rack. We were trying to leave a cultural implant, but without a, at least manifest military strength. It takes a decade before we get bin laden, but we do. And by 20 15, that country is i this is where the question that country is stabilized. Inasmuch as its nola, it is certainly no longer a threat to us. So this isn't 20 year war. It was complicated. It was extremely difficult. Youre asked e but in something like

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