John McCain,visiting Kabul, excoriates 15 years of US efforts in nation – saying goal has been to not lose rather than to winAfter more than 15 years in Afghanistan the US still does not occupy a strategy for winning peace and is making that goal even more unattainable by hampering diplomacy, and a bipartisan group of US senators said in the Afghan capital on Tuesday.
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Source: theguardian.com