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MORE THAN ANYONE CAN CHEW: AFGHANISTAN AND 9/11

by Gordon Duff, Staff Writer

HOPELESS IS A GENEROUS TERM FOR THE SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN

IS AFGHANISTAN THE "REAL WAR ON TERROR" WE NOW CLAIM?

Casualties are mounting in Afghanistan while the situation is rapidly deteriorating from hopeless to a word the English language has yet to create.  Everone under heaven has told us that fighting in Afghanistan is insane. 

Nothing can be won with terrain beyond our technological grasp, porous borders and a civilian population with hundreds of thousands willing to give their lives to convince us to leave.
With no public support at home or anywhere in the world, no support in Afghanistan, a country whose Army has actually gone backwards with billions in supplies and training and Karzai's open theft of an election, mirroring that of his neighbor in Iran, no situation could be worse.

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