This time it is in
Negotiations over the formation of a new government in
Shiite political figures have conferred in
The thought that the invasion would eventually turn
It all has happened before -- in every significant military intervention of
It happened in
Their successors were American-appointed generals told to fight the Communists. All were eventually defeated (and
It happened repeatedly in the
President
A
This attack by President Karzai on his former Western sponsors came four days after U.S. President Barack Obama personally visited
The Afghan uprising has by now led to insurrectionary episodes by Pakistani Taliban against the
President Karzai told his parliament that the U.S.-led
He earlier had said that
Such negotiations reportedly did take place before 2001, after the Soviet invasion ended and when the Taliban initially governed
The obvious if unwelcome conclusion of this is that American security is better found in an American foreign policy of military disengagement from the affairs of other societies, leaving them, and their own leaders, to search for their own solutions to their own problems. The American nation within its borders can safely be said invulnerable to military or terrorist defeat. That cannot be said of its forces, or its national honor, committed elsewhere.
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