Forget Afghanistan, let's nation-build at home first

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Soldier cuts through an opium poppy field in Afghanistan

The assessment of the war in Afghanistan from the top U.S. general there is grim. Without more troops, Stanley McChrystal warned in a report that was leaked recently, "The conflict will likely result in failure."

His candor should be applauded.

It gives President Obama and the American public - nearly half of whom now oppose the war there - an opportunity to ask themselves how we are going to save Afghanistan when we have not figured out how to engage in successful nation-building at home.

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