The deeply unserious thinking of the Afghanistan hawks

It's beyond time to face the obvious truth about the Afghanistan war: America lost

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It's time once again to check in on the good old Afghanistan occupation. America was losing badly in 2015 and had made no progress as of 2017. Maybe 2019 will be the year we turn it around?

Haha, of course not. It's probably worse now than it was four years ago. But while even creatures from the foreign policy "Blob," like President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, are all but admitting the war cannot be won, they still resist the idea America should cut its losses and get out. Instead of "a strategy for winning ... one for not losing," should be found, he writes.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.