The typical American consumer of the daily news may be forgiven for thinking of the war in Afghanistan as simply a sand trap sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of troops while taking thousands of American lives - with little more than frequent suicide bombings and reports of corruption in Kabul to show for the effort. In fact, the war's course has been extremely difficult. Even relative success (defined as a future Afghan government that can control most of its territory with little outside help) is hardly guaranteed. But there is a campaign plan, and it has a considerable logic behind it - as well as growing evidence to suggest it is working.
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