Guardian: Face down the militarists and get out of Afghanistan. No strings attached.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/17/afghanistan-obama-withdrawal-america-military



Obama must call time on the Afghan war. Retreat can be spun as victory. But it can't be conditional on impossible objectives

Simon Jenkins
Wednesday November 18 2009
guardian.co.uk

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1. A snippet

"The favoured military option said to be emerging from Obama's agonising review of Afghan policy is to "fall back on the cities". This seems the only way of marrying the military's desperation for ever more troops to the raw, bleeding fact that the Afghan war is hopeless. The killing can go on for ever, but the war is lost."