ITS PRETTY MUCH OVER IN AFGHANISTAN... THE US WILL WITHDRAW AND TRY TO SPIN IT AS WIN...
LIKELY NO SAIGON STYLE EVACUATIONS...
THE NOTION THAT SOMEHOW THE TALIBAN "HILLBILLIES" ARE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS JUST ISN'T CATCHING ON...
THE REAL TERRORISTS...OSAMA AND HIS JIHADI...HAVE MOVED ON...AND ARE NOWHERE NEAR AFGHANISTAN...
ANY ATTEMPT TO START ATTACKING THE PASHTUNS IN PAKISTAN WILL BRING PAKISTAN DOWN...AND WOULD LIKELY BE NIXED BY THE PAKISTANIS...
PAKISTAN UNDERSTANDS THAT THEIR PASHTUN REGION IS DIVIDED BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN BY THE DURAND LINE...WHICH MAKES THE INSURGENCY A WAR OF NATIONAL LIBERATION BY THE PASHTUNS....
ANOTHER IMPERIAL WAR GOES BAD...ILL CONCEIVED...AND LIKELY TO BRING DOWN AMERICA AS AFGHANISTAN DID THE USSR...AND CONFOUNDED THE BRITISH DURING THE "GREAT GAME" OF THE LAST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY....
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN PITS AN ARMY WITHOUT A MISSION...AGAINST PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO WAIT A LONG TIME TO GET WHAT THEY WANT...