Eight Years in Afghanistan, the 'Graveyard of Empires'

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10533

The United States has been in Afghanistan for eight years. The end of our engagement there is not in sight. Ted Galen Carpenter, Malou Innocent and David Rittgers take down myths associated with the war in Afghanistan and offer solutions to American involvement there. Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent are authors of a new paper, Escaping the Graveyard of Empires: A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10533

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[FortunaFortesJuvat]

More troops isn't a strategy.

Taking 90 days to get the hell out of Dodge isn't either, but at least it will work.

Guess which one I think is a better idea.

[tylerdurdenLLC]

Vietnam 2.0

we're not there to win. we're there for the special interests, the oil companies and the defense contractors, and the central bankers.

[iffi0014]

obama sucks

[mona8ify]

oh goshhh, worth laughing, america is just making fool of itself, no matter their bring all of their tanks and bombs ,they will never defeat Afghanistan INSHALLLAH.... they are daammm so afraid of poor people,  ...why dont they get it the fight of faith ,which Inshaaalh will never be defeated...

[2hamboigahs]

Lets build arab nations while ours falls apart? What a mess

[ROKHANAFGHANISTAN]

what kind of analists are these

talking non sense

taliban eradicated the drugs while these so called analists are saying as if they know it all lol.

[AzabiaMusic]

The Turks, never did War against the Taliban ! The Only one who get asskicked now´s everybody:)

[hitler5000cc]

pakhtoon in afghanistan and pakistan are bravest people of world who never defeated in history....

[ferozomari88]

Easy to invade impossible to govern, graveyard of empires, heart of war? America is SO stuck up their own ass they dont see the main point! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN A WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN. THE AFGHANS WILL NOT GIVE UP.

[chucholetsm8one]

At 6:00 Alcaeda was responsible for 9/11??? What??? Ridiculous!!

[4552steve]

@movinny WHAT THE FUCK IS THE REAL REASON WE'RE THERE ??=Its money. War is profitable and the repayment is guaranteed, because WE pay the bills through taxes. They (the people who rule) have no interest (or should I say, they get the greatest interest) through prolonging the wars.

[movinny]

I'm tired of this bull shit, WE CAN destroy these assholes but it seems to behoove our ASSHOLE leaders of, both parties, to draw it out and cause more deaths of our young men and women. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE REAL REASON WE'RE THERE ?? it's not the stupid" we fight to the USA safe", because if it were we'd of destroyed ALL of that country. We dont really CARE about the death of innocents so what is the real deal ?? DRUG PROFITS ? do we have a bunch of drug lords in washington ?