wGraves
2008-07-17 23:50:10
I too want to take what we learned in Iraq and apply it in Afghanistan. What I learned was to trust General David Petraeus. So why don’t we do that in Afghanistan, too.
Whether they are Democrat or Republican, politicians have now become a permanent class in the capital, existing along with a giant bureaucracy, operating the government for their own sake. Unless that is changed, they will simply continue to increasing until they bankrupt the country.
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