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Chasing the Taliban
How to take on the Taliban [March 8]? The real question should be, Why are we fighting the Taliban? If we are victorious, then what? There is no concrete government in Afghanistan, and when there was, corruption was the rule, not the exception. We cannot afford to continue propping up puppet regimes worldwide. Haven't we learned a lesson from Iraq?
David Walker
Dartmouth, Mass., U.S.

Rather than pursuing President Obama's strategy of building while destroying, the U.S. and its allies should do what was done successfully...

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