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The Afghanistan War Skeptics Were Right All Along
America’s goals were murky at best and unachievable at worst.
The war as it looked in 2009.
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Twenty years ago, Americans were pretty happy with their war in Afghanistan. The calculus seemed simple at first: Al-Qaeda attacked us from Afghanistan. Let’s attack Afghanistan to kill al-Qaeda, take out its Taliban sponsors, and prevent more attacks.