Joe Biden is preparing the ground for what now seems to be inevitable - the new "Surge" of US troops into Afghanistan - what Juan Cole is referring to as "Obama's Vietnam." And IMO that's no exagerration. We're looking down a long road, into a region that has been known historically as the "graveyard of empires."
Biden says American deaths in Afghanistan are likely to increase -- baltimoresun.com
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