"....And now is his best-ever chance to pull out, because the political train wreck in Kabul gives him an ideal opportunity to renege on his foolish promises to pursue the war in Afghanistan until victory. If he misses this opportunity, he may never get another, for it will inevitably and inexorably become ``his" war, and the Americans who are killed there from now on will have died on his orders. Once that kind of burden descends on a politician, it becomes almost impossible for him to change course and admit that those deaths were futile. In that case, the Afghanistan war will eventually destroy him."