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Obama’s Counterterror Plan Has New Doubters: His Own Generals and Spies

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The idea of pulling nearly all American troops out of Afghanistan in 2016 suddenly seems pretty lousy, after so much of Iraq has collapsed under a similar scenario.

Kimberly Dozier
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