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Surge or Splurge Redux

By Jamie McIntyre on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Surge or Splurge Redux

Paying off the enemy to switch sides worked in Iraq, why not Afghanistan?

Tags: Afghanistan, Laurie Ure, Payments, Taliban
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