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Originally Posted by Itse
True, although the casualties there had remained relatively constant.
Also
- I think it's too early to claim Iraq a success
- The way to the quieting down was pretty much the Shia victory over the Sunnis, most importantly in Baghdad. To start with there is no similar civil war going on in Afghanistan, and secondly the civil war included a lot of ethnic cleansing.
Make what you will of these points, I'm not trying to sell them as anything definitive.
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Agreed. I do believe that a change in direction in US policy helped stop/resolve the Shia/Sunni conflict.
I just don't think we've seriously tried to fix things in Afghanistan. Spent 2 years there after 9/11, then ran off into Iraq, and until this past year, there was no serious consideration given to active policy there and what direction the country was going.