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	<title>Comments on: Afghanistan v. Iraq</title>
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		<title>By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b7c503dd3dcfbfe6283c10874dbaaa07&#38;size=48&#38;default=http://www.thoughtcounts.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/f5161f7ee15d71d.png" alt="A Identicon Icon" height="48" width="48" /> A</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can understand thinking it was dumb to take responsibility for the government - we could have just let the Northern Alliance install whoever they wanted or whatever.  I don&#039;t understand how it was stupid to target the Taliban.  If we weren&#039;t going to target the Taliban, then what exactly was it you wanted us to *do* in Afghanistan?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can understand thinking it was dumb to take responsibility for the government &#8211; we could have just let the Northern Alliance install whoever they wanted or whatever.  I don&#8217;t understand how it was stupid to target the Taliban.  If we weren&#8217;t going to target the Taliban, then what exactly was it you wanted us to *do* in Afghanistan?</p>
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		<title>By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=eb9e31136b2ef3a2a720cb9afd94d349&#38;size=48&#38;default=http://www.thoughtcounts.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/1c1fede3880f8af.png" alt="Mike at The Big Stick Identicon Icon" height="48" width="48" /> Mike at The Big Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Going into Afghanistan was necessary. Targeting the Taliban and taking responsibility for the government there was monumentally dumb.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Going into Afghanistan was necessary. Targeting the Taliban and taking responsibility for the government there was monumentally dumb.</p>
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