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 - A One Year War
The evidence is that our elets sought to graft the effects of a civilization built by and for its own people on to a primitive society. We abandoned, i think, because we talked ourselves into defeat, right? We didn't sustain our will. It was a one year war that we fought over and over again 20 times. That's what we abandoned. And in a narrative, a false narrative about the war really took hold in the united states,. Because afghanistan was not yet denmark, you know, i mean, he it didn't need to be denmark. So it just needed to be afghanistanhere.
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