Afghanistan Still a Price Worth Paying

With the recent tragic deaths in Afghanistan, many people are asking if it is worth it. While it is difficult to outline the price we are willing to pay for success in Afghanistan, the price of failure is not hard to describe.

If we abandoned our task in Afghanistan today, we would put the security of our own country in greater peril. Al-Qaeda used Afghanistan for training, and to plan attacks on the West. We must not let that happen again. To throw in the towel at this stage would encourage every jihadist to believe that we lack the moral courage to see through a difficult mission. And it would gravely undermine the credibility of Nato, the alliance that has protected this country for six decades.