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Myths Used to Justify the Escalation of War in Afghanistan

Myths Used to Justify the Escalation of War in Afghanistan

The Obama administration faces some big risks in the impending escalation of the war in Afghanistan: soldiers are asked to ‘clear huge areas of insurgent fighters who look exactly like the civilian population, and establish “control” of places that have never been controlled by a central government at any point in their history,’ and [...]