Barack Obama's first presidential visit to Kabul last week was a wholly predictable disaster. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow To Save Afghanistan From Karzai -- Bing West, New York Times
IN February, the Taliban sanctuary of Marja in southern Afghanistan was attacked in the largest operation of the war. Last week, President Obama flew to Afghanistan and declared, “Our troops have pushed the Taliban out of their stronghold in Marja .... The United States of America does not quit once it starts on something.”
But what is that “something”? And, equally important, does Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, have to be a part of it?
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
The Karzai Fiasco -- Wall Street Journal editorial
The US needs Hamid Karzai -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
A comprehensive nuclear arms strategy -- Vice President Joe Biden, L.A. Times
Setting nuclear limits -- L.A. Times editorial
After Prague, What's Next for Arms Control? -- George Perkovich, New York Times
The bad-nukes myth: Tossing away a vital deterrent -- Ralph Peters, New York Post
Bam plan's nuke peril -- Michael Goodwin, New York Post
NATO's Days of Growth Are Numbered -- David Binder, Global Post/Real Clear World
When suicide bombing is simply strategic suicide -- Max Boot, L.A. Times
Russia's Islamic time bomb -- Sandeep Gopalan, Washington Times
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