Time Is Running Out In Afghanistan

MAC'S MEAT - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Wayne Snelling, left, watches as Lance Cpl. Taylor Slay shares a piece of his steak with Mac, a military working dog, on Camp Leathernick in Afghanistan's Helmand province, April 17, 2011. Steak Team Mission, a nonprofit organization from Dallas, served 2nd Marine Division's Marines and sailors steak dinners in seven locations within a five-day period. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Earnest J. Barnes

Clock Ticking in Afghanistan -- David Axe, The Diplomat

Sealing the porous border with Pakistan will be essential if Afghanistan is to have any hope of stability. ISAF has its work cut out.

They attacked in a human wave, hundreds strong. It was October 30, 2010 in the town of Margah, in the remote province of Paktika along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. Just months prior, the US Army had shifted about 50 fresh infantrymen into a tiny, neglected outpost outside Margah's main bazaar. The reinforcements, part of the Barack Obama administration's Afghanistan ‘surge,’ doubled the manpower at the outpost—and provoked a massive Taliban reprisal.

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My Comment: A sobering military assessment from David Axe on how we will lose the war in Afghanistan. Read it all.