The Republicans Play Politics With Afghanistan: The Ticker

In the last week, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have decisively proved that they gravely misunderstand either Afghanistan or Islam, possibly both. The alternative is that they are playing politics with one of the most sensitive periods of the war in Afghanistan since it began more than nine years ago.

When President Barack Obama apologized on Feb. 23 for the burning of several Korans at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, Romney called it an “enormous error.” Santorum said

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