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Rob Brown's avatar

As we learned during the Obama years, if you take ground troops out and do nothing except bomb--resulting in more casualties but no more American casualties--then far too many Americans who objected to the war in question are mollified.

One more reason why America is so hated. No sane person, no one capable of imagining themselves in the shoes of those being bombed, can blame the survivors for hating us.

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We don't know what would have happened if Jimmy Carter had not signed the intelligence finding Zbigniew Brzezinski demanded he sign, but had there been no arming of the mujahedin, the Soviets would not have intervened because the Kabul government would have handled the mujahedin. We don't know for sure whether women in the main cities would be able to appear in public today without burqas or would have been allowed to attend college and serve in politics, or whether Osama bin Laden would still be working for his father's construction company, but we do know for certain that many thousands more Afghanis would be alive today, and several thousand American soldiers.

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