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What cable news won’t tell you about Afghanistan

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

If we don't learn the right lessons from Afghanistan, those mistakes will be repeated again and again and again. For the last three weeks, cable news talking heads — many literally on the payroll

A War’s Epitaph

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Saturday, August 28, 2021

Defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the war in Afghanistan. Now, cable news commentators with their own undisclosed ties to the defense industry are castigating

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