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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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First Time a Chief Executive Gives a Full and Measured Explanation

High roth: I look at this war as self defeat. We defeated ourselves in afghanistan. The trump administration did with this 20 19 initiated capitulation talks is what the only way to view them,. i think, with the talibon is is thay, they priortized withdrawal as an endin of itself. They doubled down on the same flaus of the obom administration. This is the post modernist nonsense that victoris talking about. How the hell does that work in war? In war, winning means convincing your enemy, your enemy's been defeated, and we're tell to no, all you have to do is wait us out. High roth:

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