One of the reasons I link to so many Fred Kaplan articles is that he seems to go largely unrebutted. His articles for Slate get read by everyone who covers his beats (mostly foreign relations and our military) and only rarely does anyone feel compelled to argue…and this is on the Internet where you can get a fistfight going if you say the sun came up this morning.
I dunno who's right or wrong — or if there's even a right or wrong in this discussion — but his recent article on what to do in Afghanistan is getting some pushback from others. Here's one dissent and here's another, and I thought in fairness, I oughta link to them, too. We link, you decide.