Empires Never Learn

I saw this little tidbit in today's paper. Apparently our Afghanistan war is going down the drain faster than we thought. We're pulling troops back to Kabul and losing the countryside?

NYTimes:

KABUL, Afghanistan — Most of the additional American troops arriving in Afghanistan early next year will be deployed near the capital, Kabul, American military commanders here say, in a measure of how precarious the war effort has become.

And

Booman.
the American Empire is repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Empire. And the British Empire before it. Empires never learn, I guess.

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