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The Real Goal

By The Daily Dish
Sep 17 2009, 3:25 AM ET

With his usual bluntness, Derbyshire explains the real war aims of the Afghan occupation:

To bribe the damn Afghans to behave themselves for long enough that we can get out of there with some dignity? Seems to be working in Iraq.



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