Anyone who believes we successfully _won_ the war in Afghanistan needs a “serious reality check”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-16-afghan-insurgents-inside_x.htm:
The adversary faced this year by the Desert Eagles and other American units fighting in Afghanistan has defied military predictions that the Taliban and al-Qaeda were fading.
“It’s absolutely true that the insurgency has become more effective and the insurgency has moved into more areas,” says Peter Tomsen, a former special envoy who helped organize the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance in the 1980s.
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Seth Jones, a political scientist with Rand Corp. who specializes in Afghanistan, says, “The issue is not that they’re going to be successful today or tomorrow or even next year, but that in time, the United States and other major powers … just do not have the political will to stay.”
