Amid the wreckage of broken promises and failed plans that litter the ten-year mission in Afghanistan, the only certainty has been the campaign's capacity to disappoint. Rotten government, a vast cost, resurgent Taliban and the mounting death toll rnall argue that this is a patch of dusty ground where the outside world has overstayed its welcome. Now the killing of Osama bin Laden has at last satisfied one of the war's chief aims.
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