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mike_c

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

Reply to pinboy3niner (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:39 PM

Dec 2012

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?

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Wounded Iraq, Afghanistan Troops Increase As Pentagon Says Afghan War Will Continue [View all] pinboy3niner Dec 2012 OP

what the fuck is the U.S. still doing in Afghanistan...? mike_c Dec 2012 #1

This is Vietnam, part duex. unhappycamper Dec 2012 #2