Where the sniping has to stop (Infighting is not helping Afghanistan)

MIGHT Afghanistan’s “forgotten war” yet defeat the most successful military alliance in history? -- Yet it is not the spectre of military defeat that haunts NATO. It is a failure of political will. ---- But Afghanistan’s problems—desperate poverty, fragile and corrupt government, and a drug-financed insurgency—can’t wait for prickly politicians to sort out their differences. It is those politicians, rather than the troops battling the Taliban, who are courting defeat.