Afghanistan: We should declare victory and leave.
So says Eugene Robinson in a piece entitled A plan for Afghanistan: Declare victory — and leave. Being of the age I am, I am reminded of similar words from Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont, who said of Vietnam “Let's declare victory and get out.”
The conclusion of the piece by Robinson, the whole of which I urge you to read, goes like this:
We wanted to depose the Taliban regime, and we did. We wanted to install a new government that answers to its constituents at the polls, and we did. We wanted to smash al-Qaeda’s infrastructure of training camps and havens, and we did. We wanted to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, and we did.Even so, say the hawks, we have to stay in Afghanistan because of the dangerous instability
