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Afghan War Whistleblower Hails From Dallas

By Tim Rogers |

An alert FrontBurnervian points us to a profile of Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis that ran over the weekend in the Guardian. After traveling more than 9,000 miles across Afghanistan and talking to more than 250 people at every level of our military, Davis came to a much different conclusion about the war than is being fed to the media through official channels. “What I saw first hand in virtually every circumstance was a barely functioning organization often cooperating with the insurgent enemy,” Davis wrote in a report. He also went public with his thoughts in the New York Times. As he told the Guardian, “It’s like I see in slow motion men dying for nothing and I can’t stop it. It is consuming me from the inside. It is eating me alive.” I’m sharing this with you because Davis is a Dallas guy. Grew up here, anyway.

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