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My favorite is Embraer's Super Tucano, of which the US is buying 100 for the Afghan government.

They should be using a counter-insurgency aircraft, like the A-26s the Afghan Air Force is about to receive.

The Iraq and Afghan wars were as much about regional containment of Iran as any other reason.

This is yet one more of the hidden costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Joe Afghan doesn't have strategic goals, he wants to live his life in relative peace.

The Afghan military structure has not changed all that significantly in the last 200 years.

Iran is now geopolitically stronger than it was before Iraq and Afghan wars.

If you were to ask anybody what the goal of the current Afghan war is, I'm not sure many people would know.

Opium production in Afghanistan was almost nil before we invaded, and now Afghan heroin is getting shipped straight to America and business is booming!

> the US contacted the Afghan government, then the Taliban, and effectively requested bin Laden's head.

Between Generation Kill[1], See No Evil[2] and The Afghan Nightmare[3] (and other sources, other wars, other regions), it's hard to see how intelligence is working at all.

I feel confident in saying that the Afghan war is unwinnable as it is, and will continue to be waged, for the same reasons Vietnam was unwinnable.

You might even say the "Afghan Transitional Administration and their allies" if you are willing to push it.

Do you know that "almost half of 212 Afghan prisoners (in Gitmo) either innocent or forced to fight for Taliban"?

The irony is that the only way to have had a shot at making the Afghan and Iraq campaigns successful would have been to use the old-fashioned beat-cop tactics: de-escalation, peace-keeping and what is now called "community outreach" (which used to just be "knowing folks").

The Hazara have more Asian blood than the Pashtun (majority group, typically what you would think of as "Afghan") -- I recommend that you do a quick google image search, you might be surprised at what some Afghans look like.

This did not seem to noticeably affect her behaviour towards Afghanistan in the Soviet-Afghan War[2].

That is very important, especially because all the Pakistani, Afghan, Iraqi women, children, elderly, by-standers, and other innocents never have names.