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Afghanistan and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

By Samuel G. Howard on March 16, 2012

The recent news out of Afghanistan is grim. On the heels of a burning of Qurans (along with other Islamic literature) that sparked mass protests in the country, the massacre of 16 civilians, nine of whom were children and three of whom were women, by a lone U.S. gunman; now Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has demanded [...]

Posted in Defense, National News | Tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, COIN, Iraq, ISAF, military policy, NATO, Osama Bin Laden, Stanley McChrystal, sunk cost fallacy | 2 Responses

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