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Nation Losing Patience With Afghanistan A Year Earlier Than Obama Expected

Thursday, July 22, 2010


By your logic, the US can never leave.



Congress did not authorize this.



On Hardball with Chris Matthews, congressmen Jim McGovern and Gerald Nadler talk about the war in Afghanistan -- What are we fighting for in Afghanistan?:



CONGRESSMAN GERALD NADLER: We originally went into Afghanistan because we said that Al Qaeda has base camps from which they are planning attacks on the US, we ought to get rid of those base camps, we ought to eliminate them. We did. We said, "All right, the Taliban were helping Al Qaeda, we punish them". But now the mission seems to have morphed into, "We have to remake the government of Afghanistan, we have to put it on a solid footing, we have to get its writ to run in the whole country", which no government in Kabul has ever been able to do, "We have to remake the whole government". That is beyond our capability and, frankly, it's none of our business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfSesefM0o
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