All true, but what about this. Afghanistan wasn't just unwinnable the way the Americans went about it but they went about there task with a perverse naivety which guaranteed that they would alienate the population and simultaneously corrupt it. Throwing zillions of dollars at a poor country where dishonesty in defence of your existence is a way of life makes that corruption a certainty. It was the corruption of the regime the Americans supported which made the hated - but now less hated - Taliban seem the lesser evil. Hence result!
After reading it my ideas about America's competence to pursue these actions utterly changed. It seems they learn nothing from previous failures.Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
All true, but what about this. Afghanistan wasn't just unwinnable the way the Americans went about it but they went about there task with a perverse naivety which guaranteed that they would alienate the population and simultaneously corrupt it. Throwing zillions of dollars at a poor country where dishonesty in defence of your existence is a way of life makes that corruption a certainty. It was the corruption of the regime the Americans supported which made the hated - but now less hated - Taliban seem the lesser evil. Hence result!
Read:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women?utm_campaign=cm&utm_source=crm&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_EditITNYAfghanSub_091121&utm_medium=email&bxid=5dfaba982ddf9c62c104a65a&cndid=44804950&hasha=7f94db82edfeaafdcc1cf61e450db251&hashb=e7ac4222aa3b885dbdd4773253327b0505eec224&hashc=87c5cd482a29a4619a3eb9ab0456b4b5dda4491656be184d9065de89051f5791&utm_term=NYR_CM_Active_Subs_Y_Perm_12_Mths
After reading it my ideas about America's competence to pursue these actions utterly changed. It seems they learn nothing from previous failures.Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.