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To: koan who wrote (3389)	9/9/2021 9:03:40 PM
From: Eric L	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 12182

Vacillation: Flashback 11 years ... "This is a must read article by Bob Herbert. I have always been inclined to put Herbert right at the top of the big thinkers. I have been facilating about the war in Afghanistan (like most of us I would guess), but after reading this article I am convinced we must leave. " \| - koan (6/26/2010) Message 26644741 - Here are the final 3 paragraphs of Bob Herbert's article that you referred to: >> We are sinking more and more deeply into the fetid quagmire of Afghanistan and neither the president nor General Petraeus nor anyone else has the slightest clue about how to get out. The counterinsurgency zealots in the military want more troops sent to Afghanistan, and they want the president to completely scrap his already shaky July 2011 timetable for the beginning of a withdrawal. We’re like a compulsive gambler plunging ever more deeply into debt in order to wager on a rigged game. There is no victory to be had in Afghanistan, only grief. We’re bulldozing Detroit while at the same time trying to establish model metropolises in Kabul and Kandahar. We’re spending endless billions on this wretched war but can’t extend the unemployment benefits of Americans suffering from the wretched economy here at home. The difference between this and a nightmare is that when you wake up from a nightmare it’s over. This is all too tragically real. << Fortunately we be done, gone finally from Afghanistan although it will haunt us for a time. Domestic issues and the survival of capitalist democracy on our shores drastically need the full attention of the Biden admin, the US Congress and the American public. I do think that anyone reading your post that I'm replying to here should read the reply epicure made to you in reply to the duplicate of that post you made on the SI subject board she hosts. The reply is here: Message 33479219 Cheers, - Eric L -

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