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The War in Afghanistan is going even worse than you think

By Daniel DePetris
Published May 2, 2019 12:00pm ET
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The War in Afghanistan is going even worse than you think
An Afghan soldier launches a rocket propelled grenade as U.S. soldiers duck during a clash with insurgents in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. | (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The latest quarterly report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction is out, and it yet again makes for a disturbing read. The forever war in Afghanistan, 18 years and counting, is not going particularly well.

In fact, “not going well” would a gross understatement.

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