Editorial, The State of the War - nytimes

We believe that the United States has a powerful national interest in Afghanistan, in depriving Al Qaeda of a safe haven on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. This country would also do enormous damage to its moral and strategic standing if it now simply abandoned the Afghan people to the Taliban’s brutalities. - Editorial - The State of the War in Afghanistan - NYTimes
Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned The Nation

Hamid Karzai and America's Vietnam mistake - Los Angeles Times