Thursday, August 13, 2009

Ted Rall asks why we’re fighting in A-stan



I agree with the overall gist of his article, that we’re risking measuring “success” by using a more esoteric version of a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20090813/cm_ucru/whatiftheygaveawarandnobodyknewwhy"Vietnam War-type metrics/a. What next? Warlord contracts instead of body counts?br /br /And, as for propping up President Hamid Karzai, what if a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090813/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_3"top campaign opponent Abdullah Abdullah/a beats him? Do we stay even longer?div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-8384291141436581777?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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