Thirty Years' War in Afghanistan (The Nation)

Robert Dreyfuss 22 minutes ago The Nation -- Following on the heels of recent reports from British military and diplomatic circles that the war in Afghanistan can't be won, a lay out in excruciatingly painful terms how bad the situation is. Cordesman, who is both a principled, hardline conservative and a true scholar and military expert, is probably the most prolific thinktank analyst in all of Washington. His analyses are all must-reads. The only question is: Does the United States have the stomach for a Thirty Years' War against the Taliban? I doubt it, and I hope not. But Cordesman (and others) are right that that's what it would take to have a prayer of victory there. Yesterday I spoke with a top advisor to John McCain, who said point-blank that the war in Afghanistan will go on for many years. "This is a decades-long... [read full story]