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Let’s Withdraw from Afghanistan, and Learn the Hard Lessons

2019-03-11

A new joint resolution introduced in the Senate calls on the executive branch to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within one year...

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Why Trump’s Advisors Keep Quashing His Realist Whims

2019-01-15

Over a period of mere days in late December the Trump administration made two troop withdrawal decisions that startled Washington

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