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This Is What Winning Looks Like (Original Post)
snooper2
Jun 2013
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msongs
(67,496 posts)1. america will not change thousands of years worth of cultural values nt
snooper2
(30,151 posts)2. of course not
but seeing the actual interaction between our troops and the Afghans is enlightening
pacalo
(24,721 posts)3. I agree with you both.
Those Marines make me proud. They're very impressive; I worry, though, about their morale. Besides having the knowledge about the Afghan leaders & being helpless to do anything about it, trying to train them & make them understand human decency is quite a challenge.
I still believe as much as I did from Day1 that commandos should have been used instead of going to war.
I'm going to watch the second part tomorrow.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)4. it does so regularly.