U.S. Foreign Policy Failures in Afghanistan

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Given the four stated objectives for the U.S. in Afghanistan, as articulated by President Bush, this paper critically examines whether these four central goals have been completed, ultimately concluding that Afghanistan has been a U.S. foreign policy blunder. Outline Background Statement of Purpose in Afghanistan Outsourcing of the Battle of Tora Bora Conclusions and Analysis

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"In many perceptions, the Afghan campaign and that country's subsequent conquest stand today as a stunning success in America's "war on terror." This claim hardly receives challenges or qualifications, for the mixture of special operations and conventional warfare utilized by the U.S. in South Asia won the praise of self- congratulatory military planners and administration officials (though in no way as self-indulgent as the infamous premature posting of "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" behind President Bush on May 1, 2003, following the end of combat operations in Iraq). Further distracting from this claim is the incomparably more controversial Iraq War of March 2003, initiated less than eighteen months later. "

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