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  Richard W Fite

The International Security Assistance Force

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Poster on the wall of the Kunduz province governor's residence.
Should the U.S. stay in Afghanistan?   I hate war.  I hate  seeing and reading about dead and wounded coalition troops.  I hate the drone attacks, the night raids on villages, the car bombs and the IEDs.  I hate the extraordinarily high dollar cost.  Equally I hate the cost to Afghan civilians and Afghan society.    Afghans are wounded and killed at perhaps ten times the rate of coalition forces and their lives matter as much as anyone's.    And I hate the pervasive Afghan government corruption as well as our own government's bureaucracy and inefficiency. 
   
Every Afghan I asked expects, when the coalition forces leave, a resumption of the civil war that occurred in the early 1990s after the Soviets left Afghanistan.  This will be disastrous -unimaginably tragic for Afghans, and not good for anyone else either.   Probably we should stay.  I am glad I don't have to make the decision.  


 

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