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The Taliban Is Using Our Weapons

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Are Afghan security forces arming our enemies?

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The United States originally armed the Taliban when it fought against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Today, though we may now be its enemy, the Taliban still has a way of getting its hands on our weapons, apparently: After discovering that the weapons on 17 or 30 insurgent corpses...

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