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Fri Aug 02 17:19:56 +0000 2019

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

2/ If ISIS is growing bc fighting the U.S. is a massive recruitment tool (as it was for both Shia and Sunni insurgencies in Iraq), then isn't the most important question - why are we debating staying at all if we are making the situation worse? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 2, 2019 Hibernated

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1/ This article reflects 15 years of backwards thinking of Afghanistan policy. The Administration is debating whether ISIS's growth is a threat to U.S. or just Afghanistan. But if our presence there is what's feeding ISIS, then the answer to that question doesn't really matter. — PolitiTweet.org

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Senior U.S. military and intelligence officials are divided over how much of a threat ISIS in Afghanistan poses to… https://t.co/VqDOmc2Cnj

Posted Aug. 2, 2019 Hibernated

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3/ Policymakers and journalists often get sucked into this assumption that more special operations patrols and more drones and more air strikes will beat the enemy. But for every ISIS and Taliban fighter we kill, they recruit two more. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 2, 2019 Hibernated

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