The best hope for getting out of Afghanistan is some political deal with the Taliban.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/opinion/14sat1.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Subject: re: The best hope for getting out of Afghanistan is some political deal with the Taliban.
To: letters@nytimes.com


to the Editor:

   There is a crying need for non-military US aid to Pakistan. Decades of governments that have misappropriated billions of our dollars to develop nuclear weapons have left Pakistanis poor, illiterate and disease-ridden.  We need, however to disentangle that from military aid. The best way for us to get out of Afghanistan is to get out of Afghanistan. That's not contingent on the Taliban, or on the Pakistanis or on anyone else. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of American can and should bring our troops and contractors home because that's in our interest. If we didn't need to supply an army in Afghanistan, we wouldn't need to buy the good will of the government in Islamabad.

Barry Haskell Levine