re: #277 Killian Bundy

I would guess it goes something like keep the Taliban from overrunning Kabul and Kandahar and keeping the al Qaeda base at heel back in Pakistan.

/the poppy fields damn it, are you serious?

What I’m seeing is a desire to ‘stabilize’ Afghanistan. The goal is vague.

“This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires,” Obama said.”

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