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Everyone Knows America Lost Afghanistan Long Ago
- notlukesky 7y agohttps://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-afghanistan.html https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-... - The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman,[1] is a tongue-in-cheek neologism. One Friedman Unit is equal to six months,[2] specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War[3] even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit
- simonblack 7y ago"There's light at the end of the tunnel!" Oops, sorry. That was the story from the Vietnam War. (And we all remember how that one finished up. Don't we, children?) Same shit, different war.
- bediger4000 7y agoWhat did we get for our $X TRILLIONS of dollars?