What Does ‘Good Enough’ Look Like In Afghanistan?

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What Does ‘Good Enough’ Look Like In Afghanistan?
Megan G. Oprea

Afghanistan is back in the headlines again, and as usual, the news isn’t good. Last Thursday, just two days before national elections were scheduled to take place, the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack that left two top Afghan security officials dead and nearly took the life of America’s top commander in the country. This is just the latest sign that the security situation in Afghanistan, where the United States has been at war for 17 years, is disintegrating.

The question that now faces U.S. policymakers is what can and can’t they live with in Afghanistan. America’s time in the country seems to be running out.

Thursday’s attack took place at a security meeting between Afghan and U.S. officials, including a man who has been instrumental in pushing the Taliban out of Kandahar Province, Abdul Raziq, the police chief. Raziq, along with Kandahar’s intelligence chief, was killed in the attack.

Read more at: http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/22/good-enough-look-like-afghanistan/