{"id":31672,"date":"2018-08-21T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31672"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:16:40","slug":"afghan-war-a-total-failure-should-we-privatize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/afghan-war-a-total-failure-should-we-privatize-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan War A &#8216;Total Failure&#8217; \u2013 Should We &#8216;Privatize&#8217; It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are approaching the 17 year anniversary of the US war on Afghanistan. It is a slow-motion disaster, with our &#8220;enemy&#8221; the Taliban gaining more ground each year. Spending four trillion dollars and wasting thousands of lives in a war we are losing has led many, including Blackwater founder Erik Prince, to declare the Afghan war a &#8220;total loss.&#8221; Prince has a plan that he claims would &#8220;win&#8221; the war by using far fewer US troops and spending far less money. But what is &#8220;winning&#8221;? What is the policy? Why are the Taliban our enemies in the first place? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctJKl_OyEQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are approaching the 17 year anniversary of the US war on Afghanistan. It is a slow-motion disaster, with our &#8220;enemy&#8221; the Taliban gaining more ground each year. 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