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“Fighting Taliban is not about half measures”

Published: 16 December, 2009, 03:00
Edited: 16 December, 2009, 10:43

US soldiers patrol in Kunar, Afghanistan (AFP Photo / Tauseef Mustafa)

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Half measures will not work in Afghanistan, managing editor of The Texas Observer Chris Tomlinson told RT.

“I think that there is either one way or the other: either the moving a lot more troops like president Obama has decided to do, or to pull out,” Tomlinson said. “The United States needs to show that they’re resolute in fighting the Taliban and to kill as many of Taliban as possible or they just need to pull out.”

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