 AP Photo Less counterinsurgency, more killing and capturing. TAGGED: Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Counter-Insurgency, COIN, David Petraeus, AfghanistanRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| I sympathize with conservatives such as Bethany Mandel who are outraged by reports that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has been releasing some insurgent commanders from its detention facility–as revealed in a Washington... more ›› |
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