Yesterday's Times editorial discussed American policy for Afghanistan policy and specifically addressed the issue of metrics and how the United States should be evaluating the success or failure of that new policy over the next year. Now it's not perfect but the editorial displays an impressive level of understanding of the tenets of counterinsurgency that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Perhaps they read Abu M's new report! Wherever they got their insights, they're good ones and outline pretty much exactly what the US should be doing in terms of understanding whether the new strategy is working in Afghanistan.
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