This 5500 word feature in The National Interest started as a Facebook conversation with Milt Bearden, with whom I coauthored this. Milt, a CIA legend, won his war in Afghanistan. Mine seems to be limping to a sputtering end. Anyway, we have a long history of building partner forces and then kind of leaving them with little thought about what fruit that will bear. We need to. If we are to be a moral example for the world, how we treat others within it matters.
