“Inanity is pretending that Afghanistan will go away if we leave.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Morning Meeting on MSNBC http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=4373 (2009-12-04): On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
2000s, 2009

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British American author and journalist 1949–2011

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