It has been an extremely eventful last week in Afghanistan. First the Taliban overran the important city of Kunduz in the country's north. Then the Afghan government, aided by U.S. advisers and forces, prepared a counterattack to retake the city. Then a U.S. transport aircraft crashed in a different part of the country, causing 10 American fatalities and reminding us all of the sacrifice American men and women in uniform make in these kinds of difficult, faraway, and long operations. Then the Kunduz counterattack began to make progress in taking back the city, and there seemed at least to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
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