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The author discussed a chapter in this book that detailed how Barack Obama was pressured to escalate the war in Afghanistan, despite knowing he couldn't win it. He explained Obama's calculation to triple a war he couldn't win, leading to American and Afghan casualties, but ensuring John McCain would leave him alone.
And I write about this, I got a chapter two on this in Fools' errand, what he really said, he wanted to send a couple brigades, which was mostly just like a PR thing that he was saying Afghanistan is...
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The author discussed a chapter in this book that detailed how Barack Obama was pressured to escalate the war in Afghanistan, despite knowing he couldn't win it. He explained Obama's calculation to triple a war he couldn't win, leading to American and Afghan casualties, but ensuring John McCain would leave him alone.
And I write about this, I got a chapter two on this in Fools' errand, what he really said, he wanted to send a couple brigades, which was mostly just like a PR thing that he was saying Afghanistan is the good war, Iraq is the bad war, whatever.
Although, and I write about this, I got a chapter two on this in Fools' errand, what he really said, he wanted to send a couple brigades, which was mostly just like a PR thing that he was saying Afghanistan is the good war, Iraq is the bad war, whatever.