The High Price of Patriotism
Its over for the U.S. in Afghanistan, but that doesnt mean the death and destruction are about to stop. Quagmires dont just go away. However, the signs are everywhere that the American course in that nation is doomed, that those directing this forlorn attempt at occupation of a country that has never tolerated occupation know there is no positive end in sight, and that the locals from President Hamid Karzai to the competing warlords and the Taliban are cutting their own deals on the assumption that our wishes no longer matter.