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How did such a smart president as Barack Obama trip over such an obvious non-sequitur? That the United States should have pursued 9/11 terrorists into Afghanistan in 2001 is not a reason to be there ten years later! For proof, he only needed to go to Walter Reed Hospital and see the cost of this misadventure in human tragedy. Then note how much of our escalating national debt is going to underwriting the Afghan war, and imagine what that money could accomplish at home where our economy is in extremis. And ask why this country should partner abroad with a highly questionable character in a battlefield that historically has spurned would-be conquerors? How did we get there?

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