People tend to balk at pressure. Isn’t it time to find an alternative to deadlines and timelines?
Readers’ Challenge: Have IR Deadlines Outlived Their Usefulness?
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People tend to balk at pressure. Isn’t it time to find an alternative to deadlines and timelines?
For years, the war in Afghanistan has been in crisis. But now with a failed Afghan election, the resurgence of the Taliban as a political power, NATO allies withdrawing from the battlefield, and Pakistan’s tribal areas under increasing influence from the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the situation looks worse than ever. Obama and his team are spinning their wheels trying to devise a policy to right the sinking ship, but the most sensible solution, for Afghans and U.S. citizens, is to start planning a way out.