Afghanistan: President Obama's Vietnam Jonathan Marshall - Consortium News
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001QaAQB--AHbZx8S8n5G1q6qt2CtLGgJcBeCeD-eybQvoa 5Yt1t8jHK4NBOR0kTZhfhG2XKZ8_MBdOZkJBblaTgm-so2AubtzBsZl4hEYMLnXUqSvDGdjcybaS H1gifL0d_f_z47ksdRe2SQeIhkG1zVA0Nb6HQnnj7QuN-idtrPhOGnPR7UbrQdb5ivDz18CXqQCF JrkLcytZXL-DOm8jHIr404I-Qdiezg1S2C155MliCLIja_0ds4I6TxWHreSg&c=3dNbWyUvKere0 umQLR-R8cmn0ki6sU6xRdtAExkSnaUxYWJsVp2_Yg==&ch=pnVldU_efa0WNFjkZfwiD1ScFlimP -_vnGTs8tQ8f4rEnwoVwGIibg==> https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/24/afghanistan-president-obamas-vietnam/ ... Since President Barack Obama recently announced his intention to keep at least 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through the end of his presidency, the only debate will be over why he never withdrew but chose instead to bequeath an unwinnable war - the longest in U.S. history - to his successor. The U.S. war in Afghanistan will officially pass the 15-year mark in a few months ... Like Vietnam, our ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has become a hopeless quagmire ... Like Vietnam, Afghanistan represents a staggering waste of lives (more than 300,000 direct casualties through early 2015) and resources (more than two trillion dollars). Even more than Vietnam, it is a conflict for which no one in Washington bothers to offer any strategic rationale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "serbia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/serbia. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
