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war in Afghanistan
Oct 1 2009, Marco Villa

When the history books on the so-called War on Terror are written, U.S. and NATO propaganda in Afghanistan should go down in league with Tokyo Rose in stupidity and ineffectiveness.

The underlining assumption of such propaganda is: Afghans are stupid.

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