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day after the Taliban had overrun the city of Kunduz, Obama told the UN that "Ideologies
are not defeated with guns, they're defeated by better ideas." The better
idea that the Taliban had was fighting a war with guns, while Obama was still
searching through his hashtags for a better idea than a bullet. Instead of
convening a summit on "countering violent extremism," the Taliban
retook the last of their cities to fall to the United States. In a single day
in September, the Taliban had captured a city of a few hundred thousand people.
Tajikistan saw the fall of Kunduz coming months ago, but Obama’s vaunted intel
operation was too busy cooking the books to make it seem as if he was winning
in Iraq to waste time lying about another war. In March, Obama was crediting
himself with having shifted the momentum against the Taliban. Now the Taliban
have shown him which way the momentum had really shifted. [more...]
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