Trying Another Strategy In Afghanistan

An Afghan-American outpost on a mountaintop overlooking a small valley in Afghanistan's Paktika Province that is a haven for fighters from the Haqqani network and the Taliban. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Preparing For A Way Out Of Afghanistan -- New York Times

OBSERVATION POST TWINS, Afghanistan — Much of what the Pentagon hopes to accomplish in Afghanistan before withdrawing most of its forces by 2014 is visible from this small, sandbagged mountaintop, where the risks and ambitions guiding the latest effort to reshape a foreign nation are equally clear.

The outpost was built about six months ago. Perched on a ridge near Pakistan and inhabited by side-by-side American and Afghan infantry platoons, it looks down on several villages under the control of the Taliban and the Haqqani insurgent network.

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My Comment: Another article and analysis that gives me no reason to be confident that as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, peace and prosperity will return to the region. On the contrary .... it will probably get much worse.