Summary
Slender threads of hope are nice but do not constitute a plan. Nor do they justify continuing to pour American lives and resources into the bottomless pit of Afghanistan.
Ryan Crocker, the veteran diplomat nominated by President Obama to be the next U.S. ambassador in Kabul, gave a realistic assessment of the war in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Here I'm using "realistic" as a synonym for "bleak."See the full content of this document
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Declare Victory -- And Leave
Making progress is hard, Crocker said, but not hopeless.
Not hopeless.What on earth are we doing? We have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanist...See the full content of this document
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