Given the unprecedented spike in American and allied casualties, the daily developments in Afghanistan that throw the legitimacy conferred on the new Afghan government by the recent election in doubt, and turning domestic opinion on Afghanistan in America and elsewhere, it should be curious to see how victory, (or better yet progress) will be defined.

Meanwhile, in another related development, high profile conservative pundits, most notably the right’s beloved bloviator George Will, are clamoring for substantial withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Why he and others are doing this now remains mysterious.

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