Americans are hearing plenty about America's war of choice in Iraq but almost nothing about the war that ... might actually have done something to arrest the threat of terrorism. The news is not good. ... The absence of effective government and the persistence of security problems mean that an Islamist underground in Afghanistan will not be easily eliminated. ... Afghanistan may never have been a candidate to become a new Vietnam, but it is clearly on its way to becoming a central Asian Colombia. The author, Husain Haqqani, served as advisor to Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. A Forgotten War | 
