As a friend of mine just wrote to me, not entirely hyperbolically,
“Afghanistan is where empires go to die, and it's the real reason the
USSR collapsed.” Here are an Op-Ed piece from the NY Times and an
article from The American Conservative. Their recommendation re:
Afghanistan? GET OUT!
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7vwar5
“The Afghan Quagmire”
By BOB HERBERT
New York Times, January 5, 2009
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jul/28/00006/
“Losing Afghanistan”
By Leon Hadar
Prolonging this good war may be worse than persisting in the bad one
in Iraq.
July 28, 2008 Issue
-david gable