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Originally Posted by Skippy
More the fact that somebody I met and indirectly worked with made national news. I am somewhat surprised at his assesment of the situation, but he's over there and I'm not, so I'm sure he's seen information that I haven't.
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Ah.
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
He is right, I agree with him. Its not a war you can win with bullets.
I know an Afghan who is fairly recent imigrant and he agrees with this assesment. He said the insurgancy isn't a military problem, its an economic problem. IE their are NO jobs, so they fight insted.
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I really hope that this time we learn our lesson and follow through on supporting the things that improve lives. We keep getting burned by these policies that ignore the aftermath - the
real issues - after the short term military action.