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June 24, 2011

'Mission Accomplished' in Afghanistan

Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast

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Obama could have said that if the Afghans, with all our support - indeed with all our prospective support - can't cope with 20,000 to 40,000 Taliban, then only heaven can help them.

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TAGGED: Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan

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