1.0 link 132935 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/victory-in-iraq-and-afgha_b_132935.html Senator McCain claims that the U.S. is "winning" in Iraq and that a surge will lead to victory in Afghanistan. This, despite the fact the General Petraeus keeps stressing that the U.S. gains are "fragile," and that Brigadier Carleton-Smith, former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, recently observed that a military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the U.S. and its allies must find a way to negotiate some kind of a mutually beneficial deal with the Taliban. Meanwhile,...

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