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Newsweek editor asks: ‘Why are we fighting a major war in Afghanistan?’
Loading ...International editor questions war in country with ‘fewer than 100 al Qaeda fighters’
Since the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and CIA Director Leon Panetta’s admission a week ago that there may be no more than fifty to a hundred al-Qaeda members in that nation, there have been increasing signs of a loss of support for the Afghan War.
Fareed Zararia, the editor of Newsweek’s international editions and CNN host, criticized the war in his strongest terms yet on his CNN program Sunday. “If Al Qaeda is down to a hundred men there at the most,” Zakaria asked, “why are we fighting a major war?”
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