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Cato Video • June 27, 2012 

# Escaping Obama’s Better War 

President Obama called Afghanistan “the good war.” Now some lawmakers want to exit as quickly as possible. Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, offers her thoughts on Afghanistan after eleven years, hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives over a country that has rarely ever been stable, secure or prosperous. 

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##### [Malou Innocent](/people/malou-innocent)

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