Afghanistan is missing from the campaign

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Afghanistan is missing from the campaign

By Linda J. Bilmes

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  JULY 15, 2012

After 11 years, 2,000 American lives, trillions of dollars, and lifelong disabilities for nearly half of the soldiers who have fought there — we are still at war in Afghanistan. Yet if you listen to the election campaign, you would hardly know it.