And, you know, if you want to find out how the war is going, you have to go there because if you read the regular newspapers, you don't know.

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The wider story is about the stability of South Sudan and of how the country may go to war with Khartoum before a referendum on full independence in 2011.

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But I'm wondering how you explain to the average American who has seen this war go on for 10 years and is ready for troops to come home -- how do explain it when the people that we're training turn their guns on us, or U.S. officers in a secure Afghan Interior building are shot dead?

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