Success in Afghanistan under question
Published: 11 October, 2009, 11:57
US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines search a man's house during Operation Germinate. Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, October 9, 2009. (AFP Photo / David Furst )
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Afghanistan is a country with a long history of disturbance and foreign involvement. US policy seems to imply that its operation there can be successful. But can the US win? And what, in this case, constitutes winning?
Online reporter Lori “The Resident” Harfenist finds out what people in New York think about it.
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