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October 19, 2018
Has America Lost Afghanistan?
Yesterday’s attack and Washington’s lack of will.
In Kandahar yesterday, Lieutenant-General Austin Miller, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was meeting with General Abdul Raziq, one of the most important and reliable pro-American figures in the south of the country, when the Taliban attacked, reportedly with cooperation from one or more of the provincial governor’s guards. Miller escaped unscathed, but Raziq was killed along with other Afghan officials, and three American soldiers were wounded. To Thomas Joscelyn, the attack marks Washington’s defeat in its war on the Taliban:
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Has America Lost Afghanistan?
Yesterday’s attack and Washington’s lack of will.
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