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Afghanistan and the sunk cost fallacy

By Mackubin Owens
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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.

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