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War in Afghanistan is escalating again, putting pressure on a third American president to find a solution to the country’s woes since the US invaded after the September 11th terror attacks 16 years ago. 

“We are not winning in Afghanistan right now,” Defense Secretary James Mattis told senators last week, as quoted in the New York Review of Books.

This weekend was especially violent.

An Afghan soldier who is supposed to be working with US troops shot and wounded seven American soldiers on Saturday. It was the second recent “insider attack,” the Washington Post reported.

Taliban fighters, including a suicide bomber, killed six police officers and injured dozens more on Sunday, wrote Reuters.

ABC reported that an American was kidnapped on Sunday in Kabul on his way to work. That incident occurred two days after two Pakistani diplomats went missing, according to Al Jazeera.

Fighting has racked Afghanistan for decades....