Clue: not the Taliban Last year, full of dudgeon, Thus posted a modest and moderate commentary on the 2009 Afghan ‘election’ http://thusmagazine.com/2009/11/afghan-democracy-postponed-in-an-orgy-of-hypocrisy/. Read it and weep – or laugh sardonically, depending upon your smug levels. I’m certainly not proud of stating the obvious, then or now. The ‘war’ (called, with no hint of irony ‘Operation [...]
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Who has really won the Afghan ‘War’ ?
August 12, 2010 – 12:55 pm
By John Kelly
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Posted in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Insurgency, War on Terror, democracy
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Also tagged Afghan elections, Afghan Taleban, Ashraf Ghani, Counterinsurgency strategy, General David Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, Mullah Omar, Operation Enduring Freedom, President Barack Obama, president Hamin Karzai, Rolling Stone Magazine, Taliban
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