Afghanistan: Even George Will wants to bring the troops home

Time to Get Out of Afghanistan

by George Will (Washington Post 2009-09-01)

"The U.S. strategy is 'clear, hold and build.' Clear? Taliban forces can evaporate and then return, confident that U.S. forces will forever be too few to hold gains. Hence nation-building would be impossible even if we knew how, and even if Afghanistan were not the second-worst place to try: The Brookings Institution ranks Somalia as the only nation with a weaker state." -- Time to Get Out of Afghanistan by George Will (Washington Post 2009-09-01)