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    If Ukraine Is Impeachable, What’s Afghanistan?

    A misguided war that drags on inconclusively for more than 18 years is, I submit, a great crime.
    by Andrew Bacevich Dec 10, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Baz Ratner / Reuters

    As the House Judiciary Committee drafts articles of impeachment intended to remove President Donald Trump from office, let us pause to reflect on the subject of relative malfeasance. Allow me to stipulate that Trump is unfit for office. He is a coarse, vulgar, and dishonest demagogue. Yet I want to suggest that his transgressions, while notable, pale in comparison with a far greater crime that unfolded right before our eyes, for years, well before his election.

    That crime is the Afghan

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