Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Our Inadvertent war. It’s time to leave
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We went into Afghanistan with one limited purpose; to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his followers, then get out. But some had other plans. And now we are sinking lower into our latest quagmire as thousands of our soldiers are being killed and wounded in a pointless war. We have no fight with [more]

Afghanistan and Iraq: How America managed to get bogged down in two illegal wars
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After 9/11, the only justification we had to go into Afghanistan was to destroy Osama bin Laden and his followers at their base camp, then leave. The Afghan Taliban allowed the terrorists to stay there but had no interest in launching attacks on the United States. They were strictly local and practiced the brutality of Islam on [more]

Afghanistan: America’s Unintentional War
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George Bush: “As I say, we hadn’t heard much from him (Osama bin Laden). And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, you know, again, I don’t know where he is. “I’ll repeat what I said: I am truly not concerned about him…” That was from a press conference by [more]