Mission Impossible: Victory in Afghanistan
Robert Fisk, The Independent | September 23, 2008
NATO is facing a wily and pitiless enemy in Afghanistan. ++ Taliban forces have reconstituted themselves into a formidable foe. ++ The transfer of nearly 5,000 troops from Iraq - where the situation is more dire than the Bush administration admits - to Afghanistan is “too few, too late, too slow.” ++ The British were unable to control Afghanistan in the 19th century, the Russians in the 20th, and now, NATO in the 21st. ++ It’s “fantasy” to think of victory as possible, as “we have lost after we won.”
