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Afghanistan and the sunk cost fallacy

By Mackubin Owens
Published March 5, 2021 4:00am ET
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Afghanistan and the sunk cost fallacy
In Afghanistan, the United States won a short war but lost an impossible peace. And a better peace is the only reason for going to war in the first place. Yet America’s engagement there continues, without any clarity on why. On Feb. 3, 2021, the congressionally mandated Afghanistan Study Group released a report that, among […]

In Afghanistan, the United States won a short war but lost an impossible peace. And a better peace is the only reason for going to war in the first place.

Yet America’s engagement there continues, without any clarity on why.

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