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Winning a Battle; Losing a War

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By any measure, this sort of reckless command decision is badly flawed. After trying to buy Bin Laden’s capture from guys who let him escape, holding hundreds captive for years before releasing them for lack of evidence, you’d think the military brass would learn to be skeptical of its Afghani informants. But no. A few have learned nothing about how razing the village saves nothing and only builds an ultimately successful resistance movement. As well, they seem oblivious to the past record of Afghanistan bogging down superior armies, so they stumble forward, adding injury to insult.

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