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The Afghanistan Counterfactual Was Always Defeat
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The Afghanistan Counterfactual Was Always Defeat

Critics of the war would have caused us to lose sooner, when losing was never in America’s interests.

David French
Aug 19, 2021
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Taliban members near Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 16, 2021. (Photograph by Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.)

I didn’t intend to write about Afghanistan today. But history is being written in real time, and already narratives are emerging that aren’t just wrong, they’re based in fantasies about the history and military reality …

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