Although Pakistan has re-opened its border, nearly a hundred NATO supply trucks have been destroyed.The incredible vulnerability of our overextended Afghan supply lines demonstrated by these attacks strongly suggests that this war will end in the same kind of stalemate that occurred in Korea 60 years ago. We will not be able to "win" this war any more than we could in Korea or Viet Nam.
Although the Viet Nam parallel is frequently invoked by war critics and routinely rejected by war apologists, the parallels with the Korean War are perhaps even more striking. (The best analysis of what went wrong in Korea is David Halberstam's final book, The Coldest Winter.)
