Metrics: Impossible
By Major William S. McCallister, U.S. Army (Retired)
As they are currently defined, success-criteria for the U.S. effort in Afghanistan are fated to be dashed against the age-old realities of kith-and-kin governance.
Calls for a change in the Afghanistan war are making the rounds in the U.S. House of Representatives, where a 31 May push to mandate a political settlement and accelerated exit strategy failed by only a handful of votes. According to Representative Lois Capps (D-CA), having provided the Afghan people with a historic opportunity to build a future for a new Afghanistan, it’s time for the United States to fully turn over that effort to them.
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