Henry A. Kissinger -- A Strategy for Afghanistan

America cannot withdraw from Afghanistan now, but neither can it sustain the strategy that brought us to this point. The stakes are too high in Afghanistan and that the traditional anti-insurgency tactics are not going to be successful in the country. The country is too large, the territory too forbidding, the ethnic composition too varied, the population too heavily armed. No foreign conqueror has ever succeeded in occupying Afghanistan.
A Strategy for Afghanistan

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