William Astore: Leave Afghanistan Now

Here’s a good post from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Winston Churchill’s memorable quotation , “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” captured the nobility of the RAF’s performance protecting free people from the tyranny of Adolf Hitler during World War II. An irreverent paraphrase of this quotation, however, captures the Afghan war as it stands at this moment: Never was so much squandered by so many for so few. The United States is currently spending $7 billion a month on the Afghan war, yet progress remains elusive and the end nowhere in sight.

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William Astore: Leave Afghanistan Now

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