"Wars are over when victory has been achieved"

MGen (Ret) Lewis MacKenzie, telling it like it is, as he always does:

Victory will be ours when we can leave with a fair degree of confidence that the government of Afghanistan, its military and police force can look after their own security, which will include keeping the violence inflicted on the people of Afghanistan by the insurgents to a tolerable level. No one, and I mean no one, can pick the date that will be possible out of thin air. So stop trying.

Do I really need to tell you to read the whole thing?