Tue Feb 14 2012
The war in Afghanistan will end not with a formal ceremony of surrender, but with a negotiated deal acceptable to a sufficient number of the right insurgent factions. This should be the limited goal of the offensive U.S. troops will be ready to carry out this summer and fall.
The war will not end until the main component of the Taliban, the network headed by Mullah Omar and headquartered in Quetta, Pakistan, loses hope of returning to power.
The war will not end until Omar's gang in Quetta is taken off the board. Doing that requires two main steps. One is to uproot the group's fighters from the Pashtun-dominated southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. The second is to prevail on the Pakistani military to stop letting Omar and his companions use Quetta as a safe haven. Both are doable. The result may not be the transformation of Afghanistan into an ideal liberal democracy, but once the Taliban are prevented from seizing power again, the Obama administration should declare victory and withdraw. (Reprinted from The Boston Globe)
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