U.S. Victory Still Can Be Claimed In Afghanistan -- CYNTHIA TUCKER

The United States need not leave two failed states. We can still save Afghanistan. It was always the right battlefield — Iraq was always the wrong one — and Afghanistan is where we should concentrate our diplomacy and manpower now. If we don’t, that nation will continue to deteriorate until it is once again a cauldron of violence and corruption, a haven for jihadists and narco-terrorists. The ISG report made that point explicitly: “The longer that U.S. political and military resources are tied down in Iraq, the more the chances for American failure in Afghanistan increase.”