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432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

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The U.S. Military Provided the Funding for the Taliban to Attack Us

More than two dred u s military personnel and their families who were wounded or killed in afghanistan by the taliban. They argue that western contractors, by paying off the taliban to protect their own employees, provided the funding and motivation for the taliban to attack u.S soldiers instead. "A lot of people didn't realize exactly what compromises would be necessary to deliver on these promises of reconstruction," he says....

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