Determined to fail.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Iraq invasion - Brief article

Did you know that for 18 months after we defeated the Taliban in December, 2001, the "United States-led coalition deployed no peacekeepers outside Kabul," according to David Rohde of The New York Times, "leaving the security of provinces like Helmand to local Afghans?" Rohde quotes Richard Haas, the former director of policy planning at the State Department, as saying, "That was the mistake which I believe is coming back to haunt the United States now."

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