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'These People Just Want to Be Left Alone'
The Real News Network go to original November 09, 2009

| In Afghaninstan the US soldiers are losing heart for a fight they feel their presence is only prolonging |  | Sean Smith spent a month embedded with the US Army's 501st Parachute Regiment in June this year. With inadequate vehicles, relations with Afghan security forces at a standstill and the constant threat of IEDs, the soldiers are losing heart for a fight they feel their presence is only prolonging. |

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