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Article: In Afghanistan, No Choice but to Try
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 2009
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We are seeing the stirrings of a cross-ideological revolt against
American military involvement in Afghanistan.
On the right, some who accepted the Cold War as a great moral
cause view the war on terror as a bother -- even as a dangerous
excuse for global social engineering. Such tinkering, the argument
goes, is particularly doomed in Afghanistan, brimming with warlords
both primitive and invincible. And because Afghanistan is now Barack
Obama's war, no partisan motive remains to support it.
On the left, some view every conceivable war as a "war of choice"
that should never be chosen. With Iraq miraculously unscathed by the
attentions of the antiwar movement -- whose success in ...