The Baltimore Sun: A glimmer of light in Afghanistan’s hour of darkness

Watching Afghanistan descend into a chaotic end of the U.S. presence breaks my heart.

As with all lost wars, we now turn to finger pointing and blaming. The problem with this is we lose sight of the bigger lessons to be learned – thinking this bad end was the result of tactical or operational missteps, rather than a misguided strategy.

I, like most Americans, felt that 20 years and $2 trillion is enough. But we also wished for a more orderly transition to a different state, even if less desirable than the one we had hope for. Thursday’s deadly attack at the Kabul airport only increases our dismay.

 

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