04/11/2013
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"Five years is a long-term commitment by the United States to Pakistan."
"Nor should the West risk being trapped in a Vietnam-style quagmire, a war without end and with no guarantee of success."
"In Afghanistan, it's not so clear really what the commitment may be."
"A precipitous withdrawal would repeat the strategic mistake of the 1990s, when the United States abandoned Afghanistan to the chaos that nurtured al-Qaeda."