Move Chuck Hagel From Obama Team B to Team A

He argues that the original aim of defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan -- a group that the United States essentially "invented" during the Soviet-Afghan conflict in the 1970s -- has morphed into something more complex. The U.S. is now building roads and schools, working to establish an Afghan government, and trying to negotiate peace among political factions that have been warring for centuries.

"We became completely disoriented from our original focus," Hagel charged. "That problem in Afghanistan isn't going to be solved with 100,000 American troops."

The possibilty of changing a nation thousands of years old is next to impossible. Charlie Wilson helped bring about the Russian withdrawal and contributed greatly the USSR's demise. Let's not go there.