Abandoning Afghanistan…
July 7 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamJonathan Foreman writing on Afghanistan in the July/August issue of Commentary magazine:
[T]he truly awful aspect of this retreat is that America may be about to abandon Afghanistan just when it seems to have turned a corner—when a new leader is about to take power after a peaceful democratic process, when economic growth is transforming life for millions, and when the security forces are beginning to become genuinely effective in a limited but promising way.
It wouldn’t be the first time that the United States has chosen to lose a war without being defeated in the field, or risked rendering meaningless a huge expenditure of blood and treasure, or let down a beleaguered ally. But it would likely rank high in any list of the nation’s strategic blunders and shabby betrayals, and its fallout might be felt for many years to come in the region and beyond.
Afghanistan is not the only country that has changed dramatically since late 2001.
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