A few years ago I remember reading an article about the attempts over the years to defeat Afghanistan. The author concluded that the country may have been occupied by the invaders for a few years, but in the end the invaders - be they British, Russian, or any other country - left with their tail between their legs. Will this happen today?
We have been in Afghanistan more than four years. Today's news announces that up to 105 people were killed yesterday in battles in Afghanistan. How many were killed in Iraq? The British are about to ship more than 3,000 troops there; it will be the largest British deployment in Afghanistan in this century. There is talk of Iran supplying machine guns and rocket launchers. The drug trade seems to still be the primary source of income for the population, yet the puritans want to stop it without offering much in its place. Things don't sound good to me.
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