Cubefield Game

Another grim moniker for Afghanistan: NOW AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR. On March 29, it will pass Vietnam's 8½ years of sustained combat. And the end is still many years away. Though Obama plans to begin a withdrawal by July 2011, a U.S. presence will last much longer. It will take until 2014 at the earliest before the Afghan army and police are prepared to take on the Taliban without significant help. Afghans are undermanned, ill-trained, ill-equipped and lacking in logistics and secure facilities Read the rest of this entry »