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Olbermann's "Special Comment" last night, you should (transcript and video at the link):

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Mr. President, it now falls to you to be both former Republican Senator George Aiken and the man to whom he spoke, Lyndon Johnson. You must declare victory, and get out.

You should survey the dismal array of options in front of you -- even the orders given out last night -- sort them into the unacceptable, the unsuccessful, and the merely un-palatable, and then put your arm down on the table and wipe the entire assortment of them off your desk -- off this nation's desk -- and into the scrap heap of history.

Unless you are utterly convinced -- willing to bet American lives on it -- that the military understands the clock is running, and that the check is not blank, and that the Pentagon will go to sleep when you tell it to (even though the Pentagon is a bunch of perpetually 12-year old boys desperate to stay up as late as possible by any means necessary) -- get out now.

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As we've been saying here for a long time, Afghanistan is an unwinnable proposition, since the days of Alexander the Great, through the British, through the Soviets, and once again, somewhere down the line, through our occupation as well.

President Obama, you are making a big mistake.

Update:

George puts it succinctly:

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note to obamarahma - vastly superior invading armies have always exited afghanistan - just not on the terms they were expecting.

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