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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Watching Afghanistan fall

Stationed with a battle-scarred U.S. Army troop in the mountain region where Osama bin Laden supposedly hides, with the insurgency on the rise, I witnessed why the other war is going to hell.
By Matthew Cole

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  • Monday, February 26, 2007 10:05 PM

    Mistah Kurtz is Dead!

    Reading this story felt like "Heart of Darkness" (or "Apocolypse Now") revisited. We fund and equip Mujahadeen fighters in the 80's, then fight them twenty years later...Adios Mio!!! Truly, my heart aches for those who've suffered from all the geopolitical blunders we Americans have perpetrated; to wit our operations in Afghanistan. We have no true mandate there other than to build a strategic oil pipeline, which now apparently is in great jeopardy.

    —flextones Read flextones's other letters

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