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Our veterans want us to stop making more Afghanistan veterans

By Timothy P. Carney
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Our veterans want us to stop making more Afghanistan veterans

Were the war in Afghanistan a person, it would be old enough to enlist to fight in the war in Afghanistan.

Put another way, America’s youngest soldiers weren’t alive when the first American soldiers went to Afghanistan after Sept. 11, 2001. About 13,000 U.S. troops are currently stationed in Afghanistan.

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