One by one, the pillars that have underpinned our effort to win the war in Afghanistan are being demolished. The process began earlier this summer with the unceremonious removal of General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of the Nato mission and the architect of the comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy that has been devised to defeat the Taliban. The general's dismissal, which President Obama demanded after the issuing of unflattering comments about his administration to a reporter from Rolling Stone, was accompanied by the formation of a new British Government that is decidedly lukewarm about the Afghan war.
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