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According to the chaplains of two US battalions in Afghanistan ‘that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taliban,’ American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned.’ The goal of the battalions was ‘to secure the mountainous Wardak province and then to win the people’s allegiance [...]

Eight years of US military action in Afghanistan with an expense tab of a quarter of a trillion dollars, and Afghanistan is in worse condition, with less stable bordering countries, death filling the air, and a ranking of 181 out of 182 countries for human development indices. ‘Life expectancy has fallen to 43 years since the U.S. invasion. Forty [...]

As one observer noted, ‘The Taliban-led insurgency is increasingly an insurrection against the behavior of the Karzai government—not against the religion or civilization of its international partners.’ The basic concept behind an insurgency, after all, is revolt against current political administration. As Thomas L. Friedman stated, “When you [...]