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Originally Posted by mburbank
Well, we killed six more. What is it sop far this week, fifteen?
Hearts and Minds, baby, hearts and minds. It's a good thing we won that war at least.
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It's a PR victory, at best. The U.S. and its allies in the Afghan war can claim they were victorious because they routed the Taliban; however, Kabul is the sole democratic outpost in all the country. The rest of Afghanistan is ruled by warlords (some of who were in the Northern Alliance), and Taliban is recuperating in various pockets near the Afghan-Pakistan border. Karzai is basically ringed by enemies, with only a few thousand troops from various countries protecting him.