The Silliest Argument Yet for Staying in Afghanistan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Shedding Blood For Pakistan?
I really hoping this silly line of argument would just fade away. Lindholm and Foust are just not making any sense. “Fixing” Afghanistan is largely irrelevant to the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan… but now that one of Sully’s minions has thrown the argument out there, we’ll never hear the end of it.
I’ll posted a fuller rebuttal shortly… though the argument is so fundamentally inane that it is hard to know where to begin…
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