Author: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
January/February 2011
Foreign Affairs
After so many years of faulty U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, there are no quick, easy, or cost-free ways to escape the current quagmire. Although it has problems, a de facto partition of Afghanistan, in which Washington pursues nation building in the north and counterterrorism in the south, offers an acceptable fallback.
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