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mcguire on July 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repair...

Special case. The US has a lot of experience with counter-insurgencies and screws it up every time.

webmaven on July 17, 2021 [–]

> Special case. The US has a lot of experience with counter-insurgencies and screws it up every time.

Arguably, in Afghanistan the US came closer than ever before to not screwing it up, despite Afghanistan being a particularly hard nut to crack.

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