^
One of my good friends is a higher up in Afghanistan and has been there for a while- he said that they know that there's no real hope of ever defeating anyone there, it's basically been reduced to a Vietnam-like strategy of trying to figure out how to get out without being too embarassed.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend has always been a pretty bad idea, considering some of the assholes who we've hung around with in the past (Happy Birthday Ayatollah!
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