The dying have no reason to lie. In court, a deathbed confession is presumed to be the unvarnished truth: such is the case with Richard Holbrooke.....These words attested to the reality Holbrooke understood, with a clarity of vision few in the White House can possibly muster; that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable militarily......The only possible solution is a political rapprochement between the existing, US-installed Karzai government and the Taliban, if that is even possible.
The US needs to get out, and make whatever deal they can with whatever government is left standing, and negotiate with it for the rights to install the pipelines with which to control Eurasian oil, which - beside the vast mineral and opium wealth - was the true reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place.
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