More US Troops To Afghanistan: Will A New ‘Surge’ Work?

by in Dr. Ron Paul

Some 300 US Marines are headed to Afghanistan, as the Taliban continue to gain and ISIS persists. The US Commander for Afghanistan wants several thousand more. The 2009-2010 “surge” was supposed to produce a victory in the 16 year war. It did not. Will doing the same thing over this time work?

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