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Old 01-16-2008, 11:15 AM   #27 (permalink)
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I hate our lack of commitment. I hate our lack of unified command of singular purpose and focus. I hate the absence of control over NGOs that wander willy-nilly. I hate cowboys that see Afghanistan as their last frontier. Our untidy western facade masks an even more untidy and byzantine Afghan puzzle-palace. I hate that too.
The problem that the US has, is that we don't know how to secure the strategic and political loose ends of war.
We are very good at fighting, our nation was born from it. It's the aftermath that we seem to lack any real commitment to.
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