TAMPA — Almost nine years into the war in Afghanistan, there's still no guarantee of success or even much agreement on how to achieve it.
That was the often gloomy take of experts meeting Wednesday at the start of a three-day symposium on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the University of South Florida.
"I'm a pessimist about where we are now, where we've been and where we're going," said Thomas Johnson, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. "In April, Afghanistan will replace Vietnam as the longest U.S. conflict, and there's still debate about what the desired end state is."
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