Jim Banks, National Review
The U.S. Military Has a Management Problem
Editorial Board, Bloomberg
The Afghanistan War Is Over. We Lost.
Thomas Jocelyn, The Weekly Standard
(Brookings Institution) Despite Taliban threats of violence to disrupt last Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, many Afghans showed up in large numbers to vote. Their commitment once again debunked the myths and caricatures so readily put forth by Western commentators that Afghans do not want democracy.
By Robert Cassidy, Modern War Institute: “The value of the political object, or the worth of the ends sought, determines how long and what costs the United States should be willing to pay. In Afghanistan, if those political goals are articulated clearly, their worth should relate directly to the will of the U.S. polity to persevere in the war to a successful end.”