The war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, argue a group of five American veterans in a . One of them is , a PhD candidate in聽, who served in the Marine Corps from 2006 to 2011 and is a veteran of the war.
鈥淲hen I signed up for the Marine Corps I really believed in the mission. I believed that it was聽bringing something like democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan,鈥� Rubin says in the five-and-a-half-minute-long video clip. 鈥淏ut now I don鈥檛 see how you can be a killer and a nation builder at the same time.鈥�
Rubin鈥檚 work has appeared in The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, the Washington Post, and other outlets. Last December, he wrote an opinion piece for , a version of which appeared in The Guardian, called
