As sad as I am to admit it, Bacevich has a point: our efforts in Afghanistan are futile. This is a nation that has never been subjugated by an invading army; Alexander the Great couldn’t do it; Genghis Kahn was stopped; even the mighty Soviet Union was repelled by these resilient people.
I am sad because so many lives have been lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the monetary cost has been enormous. It is time we accepted that the Afghan people will be as they always have been: locally autonomous and defiant to the end.
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