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Veterans

mike_c

(37,051 posts) Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:39 PM Dec 2012

what the fuck is the U.S. still doing in Afghanistan...?

Not enough other outlets for exporting military violence against poor people? Haven't fully secured access to their natural resources yet? Perhaps this just isn't a good time for economic downturn in the military industrial complex?