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This 6-page paper discusses the support and criticism of the war in Afghanistan, with the paper leaning toward the idea that the war was a waste of time and resources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth plane, which was said to have been headed either toward the White House or U.S. Capitol Building instead
crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. When the dust had settled, it was determined that the attacks had been directed by a group of terrorists, known as Al-Qaeda, which was
operating in Afghanistan under cooperation of the Taliban leadership that ruled there (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). In retaliation, U.S. President George W. Bush, working with a NATO coalition, sent
military forces into Afghanistan to successfully oust the Taliban leadership (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). In theory, that should have been the end
of things; the Taliban was ousted and Al-Qaeda, under the direction of Osama bin Laden, was forced underground. However, as attention turned from Afghanistan to Iraq, the Taliban was able
to regroup in neighboring Pakistan and re-infiltrated Afghanistan. By 2009, under a new president, Barack Obama, the United States attempted to launch a new counterinsurgency effort in an attempt to
bolster the Afghan state and to try to defeat the Taliban - once again (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). The Obama administration believes that Afghan stability is highly important to
defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan closed close to a decade ago, right after coalition troops had
the Taliban and Al-Qaeda on the run. The view of this paper, however, is that what the United States wants (a stable Afghan government, complete with beginning democracy) is absolutely
impossible in Afghanstan, as this is a nation riddled with tribal feuds and fights. With a drawdown of U.S. troops almost imminent, there are concerns that an undesireable form of
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