The rollout of Barack Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan policy has largely focused on a variety of military and diplomatic objectives, from the training of forces to serve in both country's armies and police forces to procedures to eradicate the drug trade crippling the Afghan economy.
In a briefing with reporters on Friday, however, Obama's chief ambassador to the region, Richard Holbrooke, offered a humanitarian justification for the administration's approach. And he did so by drawing parallels to one of America's most glaring failures...
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