If we accept that history says it's impossible to win in Afghanistan, that it is and will always be where empires go to die, as claimed by the OP, then we have to accept that the same claim was true based on similar evidence for manned flight - up until the point where evidence proved otherwise.
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That's what analogies are for.
Date: 1/12/09 20:39 (UTC)