To Secure Afghanistan Peace, Examine Past Failures

In the course of several months, President Trump’s previously strong strategy for Afghanistan has become a two-pronged conglomerate of weak Obama-era strategies that never bore fruit, with Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad attempting peace talks with an enemy in possession of tremendous momentum, and the Pentagon preparing what amounts to yet another Afghanistan withdrawal timeline of three to five years.

Trump and U.S. military, intelligence, and government leaders should reexamine the recent points of…