Ryan Crocker Slips Quietly Away -- Kelley B. Vlahos

In other words, they come, they go, and Afghanistan still stands as a paradox and a plague on our high foreign policy aspirations. The sands of time shift ever so slightly, enough for the next head full of steam to thunder out there like an iron belly engine (only to find that, like the others, the tracks only go so far).  - Ryan Crocker Slips Quietly Away
Afghanistan: We Forgot History and We Repeated It - Eric Margolis