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the top officer in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, wrote last week that the U.S. might leave without victory.
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"The U.S. may be forced into leaving Afghanistan, regardless of its intentions to stay, or face conditions that make any stable form of victory impossible," he wrote on his website at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Containment from the outside may be the only choice."
