Exit strategy or “No Exit”?
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass (who was also the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning under George W. Bush) likens our commitment to Afghanistan to Sartre’s play, “No Exit,” in which the characters cannot seem to escape one another.
“Hell is other people,” one says. Why is this relevant? Because in both Iraq and Afghanistan, America finds itself involved (some might say trapped) in difficult situations (some might describe them as hell) where its ability to exit successfully depends largely on its local partners.
In order to successfully “sell” this war to an increasingly war-weary public, the administration has emphasized its intentions to leave the region sooner than later. Unfortunately, Haass reminds us, “conflicts are easier to get into than out of.”
-Colin
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