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Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan

Wednesday, September 29, 2010


Gates didn't do much in a way of providing the President any options other then a surge. 
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It worked for both Bush and Obama in Iraq.

We're still there, it's still a full-on raging war but most Americans don't know that and believe "combat operations are over" and a few troops are there for show.

The way that Bush and Cheney and now Obama keep these wars going is by increment.  The longer they get away with not bringing all of the troops home, the longer we remain occupying those countries, the more worn down the American people become in allowing it to continue.  The goal is to wear down everyone, the Americans, the Iraqis, the Afghans, and the longer it goes on, the more self-fulfilling a prophecy it is.
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