"Success in Afghanistan will be measured in years and decades ..." http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/21/trump-speech-on-afghanistan/ … Centuries, even.
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You're missing the point - I'm not in favor of continuing, just that those excuses are myths - it's a simple proxy war conducted by Pakistan
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Afghanistan was the "Graveyard of Empires" long before Pakistan was even imagined.
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That itself is BS. Which empires exactly were killed by their Afghan adventures? The Brits tamed AFG quite easily. Alexander lost in India
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"The Brits tamed AFG quite easily." You're joking, surely?
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The Durand Line held forever. And the Sikh Empire took over a lot of AFG before it was toppled by internal strife and the Brits.
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I'm sure you're not saying "Pashtuns would be just like the Swiss if not for the meddling Anglos" but you could be misunderstood that way.
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