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Destroying villages to save them in Afghanistan

Bob Morris, on Dec 18, 2010, 5:30 pm

Winning their hearts and minds in Vietnam

It didn’t work in Vietnam and it’s not working in Afghanistan either. What are they thinking? Destroying villages and killing non-combatants will just make the locals want to join an insurgency – or expose the CIA station head.

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    There was a time, just ten years ago, when I thought it all put away, safely in the closet, wounds scarred but sealed, and then someone had to go and start another one.

    I hate that picture, as I hate the government who did this to her, and to me.