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The Afghan War's Dismal End; Blame Bush Too
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friends to like this.That's because the Taliban and other Islamist forces have already made a substantial comeback; because the coalition-sponsored Afghan leaders have proven themselves corrupt and inept; and because Americans and other Westerner populations remain unconvinced that this war is worth their lives and treasury. As I have often predicted, about both Afghanistan and Iraq, it's only a matter of a few more years before the impact of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars devoted to their liberation will disappear with little more than a trace. Republicans are quick to jump on Obama and blame him for this sorry state of affairs. But not me. The two problems they point to – an inadequate number of troops to win and an arbitrary deadline for the troops to withdraw – can both be traced back to George W. Bush. He initiated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, starved them of troops, and imposed a deadline for troop withdrawals from Iraq as arbitrary as Obama's for Afghanistan.
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