In light of President Obama’s recognition and acceptance that “the road ahead will be long” and difficult, the following questions remain to be answered. Just how long will we endure failure, should we not be successful. With our economy in crisis, just how much treasure are we prepared to squander in pursuit of our goals in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Just how many lives are we prepared to sacrifice. Though I hope I am wrong, given the history of unrest and resistance in Afghanistan, the complexity of the problems in the region, the variegated and confused goals to be achieved, I fear that our efforts, like those of the Soviet Union and the British before us, will ultimately prove unsuccessful and that President Obama, finding himself embroiled in an unwinnable war, with too much invested in treasure, lives, and reputation, to just pick up and walk away will share the fate of another Liberal Democratic President whose dreams for a “Great Society” had to be abandoned because of his decisions to become embroiled in quagmire.
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