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Originally Posted by August
Not many because we're drawing down there as well. We'd probably have left already but Obama doesn't want the Karzai regime to crumble like a house of cards before he runs for reelection. So like Nixon did 40 years earlier in Vietnam he's deliberately keeping them there long enough so he's not trying to run against pictures like this:
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August, this picture came to my mind when I first read of the war coming to a close in Iraq.
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