The rough road ahead for Afghanistan

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/11/the-rough-road-ahead-for-afghanistan/

The rough road ahead for Afghanistan
Allison MacDonald, @politicalli
5:47 PM on 03/11/2013

Chuck Hagel’s first trip as Defense Secretary to Afghanistan underscored what a political quagmire the war-torn country has become.

As Hagel arrived in Kabul over the weekend, two suicide bombs exploded nearby; Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai accused the U.S. of colluding with the Taliban; and only hours after Hagel left, a gunman wearing an Afghan Security Forces uniform opened fire during a meeting in Eastern Afghanistan, killing two U.S. soldiers.

After more than eleven years of war in Afghanistan, Monday’s NOW with Alex Wagner panel discussed what has been accomplished, the challenges that lie ahead, and weighed the successes and failures of President Obama’s approach to national security and foreign affairs.

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“You begin to wonder,” said The New Yorker’s Rick Hertzberg, “when are countries going to learn that it’s a mug’s game to go and try to run Afghanistan? The British learned it; the Russians learned it; now we’ve learned it.



unhappycamper comment: The Brits are on their third try at Afghanistan. Maybe they will learn this time.

Americans haven't learned shit.

If you read the article, it says "This war has cost the U.S. $470 billion....".

The United States had been flying evertything, repeat evertything after Pakistan closed its border for the better part of a year. Methinks the $470 billion dollars quoted for this quagmire is a tad low.