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Commentary: Now a pointless war?
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVEUPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- We should have declared the Afghan war won last May 3, the day after a U.S. SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden and buried him in the Arabian Sea. That was the advice given in Washington this week by a former spy chief who played a key role in the Saudi-Pakistan-U.S. alliance that defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in early 1989. The Soviet empire imploded nine months later.
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