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Sept. 24, 2007—After all, if a country [like the USSR] with relatively few public opinion concerns or moral compunctions about its tactics cannot beat a bunch of ill-equipped Afghan tribesmen, what does that say about the ability of the United States—with its domestic constraints, statutory limitations, moral inhibitions, and zealous investigative reporters—to carry about a successful action against a geurilla war?—1987 Princeton PhD thesis, David Petraeus, NEW YORKER, p. 84.