Welcome, Obama, to the March of Folly [from the left]
I don't pretend to understand Afghanistan, but I do know it's a big, poor, backward Islamic country in Central Asia with all sorts of warring factions that have been at it for decades, or even centuries. I know that American soldiers have been fighting there for eight years and that the situation is still a huge mess. And now President Barack Obama, after sending 21,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in March, is set to announce next week that he's going to send over another 30,000 or so, which will bring the total number of US troops in that big, poor,...
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Tags: Afghanistan, All Sorts, American Soldiers, Amp, Barack Obama, Central Asia, Centuries, Decades, Islamic Country, March Of Folly, Warring Factions, X27