COMMENT It has taken time and bitter experience but gradually it has dawned on western policymakers and generals that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, at least in the way it is now being waged. Worse, US and Nato over-reliance on a military strategy that combines insufficient troops on the ground and indiscriminate attacks from the air has triggered a popular backlash and spread the war across the Afghan border into the strategically far more important arena of Pakistan.
This is just not working.
