Break out the Champagne (or sparking wine) and celebrate the capture of bin-Laden, the collapse of al Qaeda and the defeat of the Taliban!::::::::
Ooops.
Sorry.
I guess not.
Not this year.
Probably not next year either according to NATO and British generals in the field and the British diplomatic corp.
Maybe at this '7th Year Stretch' this question should be asked again:
What is the US mission there?
Revenge? Retribution? Justice? Freedom & Democracy?
Or is it a never-ending gravy-train for arms dealers and a never-ending, murderous nightmare for the Afghan people?
After years of professional starvation as a 'working musician', DC found his way to Taiwan where he has lived and taught English as a foreign language for 18 years - fourteen of them married blissfully to Yashan 'Linda' Huang.
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