There is, said the American secretary of defence, no certainty "that a conventional military victory, as commonly defined, can be achieved here … We seem to have gotten caught in a sinkhole." He's talking about Afghanistan surely, as the thousandth US military death is recorded and coalition losses creep towards 2,000? No: that was Clark Clifford in 1968. And the sinkhole that finally cost more than 200,000 American dead and wounded was Vietnam.
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