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2018-05-23 Afghanistan

US watchdogs report few signs of progress in Afghanistan under Trump strategy

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Have there been any progress in Afghanistan in the last 2000 years?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-23 04:16|| 2018-05-23 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't remember this headline for 0bama?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-05-23 04:54|| 2018-05-23 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we please get the f*&k out of Afghanistan now? Seriously.

Posted by Jack Bonaparte7513 2018-05-23 07:04|| 2018-05-23 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Sears Roebuck and K-Mart were also a bad investments. Write it off and move on.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-23 07:06|| 2018-05-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 ...or level it (Mongol style - they've had the experience) and move on.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-05-23 07:34|| 2018-05-23 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Grom beat me to the obvious statement.

Wasn't there some progress in the 50s and 60s when it was fairly western and before the extremists came in?

Posted by DarthVader 2018-05-23 09:30|| 2018-05-23 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Believe it was in the 70's that it suffered the same fate as Iran did, just earlier due to Coup's and Russian meddling.

Posted by Charles 2018-05-23 10:09|| 2018-05-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "There is no progress. There is only change." --Liszendir, a character in M.A. Foster's The Warriors of Dawn(1975).
And for Afghanistan, and Pakistan, it seems to be a cycle like kids on a beach with one kid building a sand castle and the others kicking it down.

Posted by magpie 2018-05-23 10:11|| 2018-05-23 10:11|| Front Page Top

#9 If we leave entirely, that gives the valuable mineral assets to China, who has been actively working to own them.

Long term impacts, given that some of those minerals are not commonly available elsewhere.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-05-23 11:12|| 2018-05-23 11:12|| Front Page Top

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