U. S. MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN WAR NOW OBSOLETE

"... The world's most important terrorist safe haven is visibly not Afghanistan, but instead next-door Pakistan. (And) Because the U.S. presence in Afghanistan requires cooperation from Pakistan, the Afghanistan mission perversely inhibits the United States from taking more decisive action against Pakistan's harboring of terrorism..."

"The less committed we are to Afghanistan, the more independent we are of Pakistan. The more independent we are of Pakistan, the more leverage we have over Pakistan. The more leverage we have over Pakistan, the more clout we have to shut down Pakistan's long, vicious, and now not credibly deniable state support for terrorism."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/09/frum.pakistan.trap/index.html?iphoneemail