Gene Lyons on war without end

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LITTLE ROCK — One of the enduring oddities of American foreign policy debate is that asking the most obvious questions is all but forbidden.

For example, how does Afghanistan pose a threat to the United States?

Certainly not in any military sense. The impoverished, largely illiterate Afghans have no army apart from the one U.S. and NATO forces, with very limited success, are trying to train, no air force, no navy, no offensive military capacity whatsoeve

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