Sustain success in Afghanistan - washingtonpost

The painful lesson we learned on Sept. 11, 2001, remains true today: What happens in Afghanistan directly affects our safety here at home. We abandoned Afghanistan in the 1990s, and the result was a fanatical regime that allowed its territory to become a base for global terror attacks, while inflicting medieval tyranny on the Afghan people, especially women. - Sustain success in Afghanistan - John McCain, Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham