Friedman on Afghanistan

Tom Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, has an interesting piece about our options in Afghanistan. I was struck by this quote:

I still believe our options in Afghanistan are: lose early, lose late, lose big or lose small. I vote for early and small.

Those may have been our options when we kicked out the Taliban several years ago. Now it is several years and several billion dollars too late for "early and small." All that's left is "late and big."