"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Gains in Kandahar Came with More Brutal U.S. Tactics
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2010-12-19 04:00
“The district governor in Arghandab, Shah Muhammed Ahmadi, acknowledged that entire villages had been destroyed.” And then there is my favorite quote from this article.... “Not just Khosrow, but many villages we had to destroy to make them safe."
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