The Afghanistan war will outlast Trump
by By Andrew J. Bacevich, Los Angeles Times
Aug 25, 2017
2 minutes
With President Trump's Monday night speech, prospects for ending the Afghanistan war anytime soon have vanished. Whether that bodes well for U.S. national security is another matter.
Nearly 16 years after U.S. forces first entered Afghanistan, there they remain. Success, narrowly defined as creating Afghan institutions capable of preventing that nation from once more becoming a haven for terrorists, has proved elusive.
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