Andrew Sullivan's take on Afghanistan strikes me as the sad but honest truth of the matter:

America's relatively tiny stake [in Afghanistan] means that we will always be outlasted by those with deeper commitments, wider knowledge and much greater fanaticism. And yet we plow on ...

It happened before - after the forerunners of the Taliban drove the Soviet Union from Afghanistan.

Tags: Afghanistan, Andrew Sullivan

This entry was posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009 and is filed under Foreign Policy, National Security, The Opinionsphere, The War on Terrorism. Comments are closed; the conversation is kept as it was.