Time To Get Out Of Afghanistan

by George Will (in the Washington Post from 1 September 2009)

So, instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent Special Forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.

Genius, said de Gaulle, recalling Bismarck’s decision to halt German forces short of Paris in 1870, sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I don’t always agree with George Will but I think here he’s right on.