But our eight-year quagmire . . . excuse me, war . . . can still be won, says Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in that country, who recently completed a review of the situation: "Success, he commented, "is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort.
Before I salute crisply and shout "yes, sir! I'd like to quote from an essay by Robert E. Draper called "Keys to Real Success " Going Beyond ˜Winning' and ˜Losing' in Business With a Positive Attitude. I'm stuck, see, on the concept of "winning this war, because human intelligence has mostly moved beyond this concept in every area of life except international relations, which remains a multi-trillion-dollar global bastion of Bronze Age thinking.
"It is important, writes Draper, "to first realize that success, as most businesspeople know it, is always trailed by the shadow of the fear of failure and, therefore, is not real success at all. That's because real success cannot be found in a ˜winning' that includes a potential for loss. . . .
"To succeed at work requires adopting the mindset . . . of good card players, he goes on. "Like them, you play not for occasional fits of excitement, but to survive. This requires that you give long-range thinking priority in your mind, and that you never perceive a current gain that will be trailed by a long-term loss to be acceptable or even attractive.
OK, let's jump now to a refugee camp in Kabul, where journalist Norman Solomon introduces us to a 7-year-old girl named Guljumma Khan, who lost her arm in a U.S. bombing raid, and whose father has gotten nowhere trying to get redress or the least support from the United States, the United Nations or the Afghan government to obtain medical assistance for her or take care of his family.
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