At Last We Get It - This War Is Vietnam For Slow Learners -- A Commentary

U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Daniel M. Yurkovich, right, and Lance Cpl. Farid Hotaki speak with an Afghan man as he makes his way home in Golestan, Farah province, Afghanistan, March 13, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian D. Jones

From The Guardian:

Eight years of fighting has made no difference to the balance of power in Afghanistan. Only one word makes sense: exit

One word shines through the spin surrounding this week's Barack Obama policy review on Afghanistan. The word is exit. Before he became president, Obama was much taken by the idea that Afghanistan was a good and winnable war, a usefully macho contrast to his retreatism on Iraq. But in a military briefing at the time, he asked what was the exit strategy from Kabul and was met with silence. He has got the point.

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