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Originally Posted by host
why isn't the justification to maintain such a large force in Afghanistan, and why the US invaded in the first place, a reasonable part of the discussion, here?
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Because the topic is about how the war is going, not about why we went into it in the first place 7 years ago. Besides, I seem to remember a thread about 7WTC specifically, a while back - or is my memory playing tricks on me? Help me out, guys.........
See, host, this thread triggers all sorts of issues in my own head about collateral matters, but I don't raise them because even though there is a connection of some kind, they would side track the discussion. The OP here called for discussion of how the war is going, hence the title "downward spiral in Afghanistan." Isn't it most fair to the author of the OP to stick with that basic topic and not take it on frolics elsewhere, far afield?