By Saul Landau The McChrystal debacle dramatizes how military thinking dominates U.S. policy — look at how much of the budget the Pentagon commands — as well as the utter hopelessness of achieving anything but draining defeat from the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. This lesson should have been learned after Vietnam. As Yogi Berra said, “it’s déjà vu all over again.” Washington handpicked Hamid Karzai to become president of Afghanistan. After serving [...]