Posted on 10/24/2010 1:17:41 PM PDT by ColdOne
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, downplayed news reports of American “peace talks” with Taliban leaders, but he acknowledged that a “pure military victory” in Afghanistan “is not possible.”
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Vietnam and Johnson again. Here comes the slaughter.
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