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Saturday, August 14, 2021

Explaining Afghanistan’s Collapse — Paul Robinson

Vietnam Syndrome redux. This is fast unfolding fiasco is even worse than Vietnam since it shows that the US learned nothing from its ignominious withdrawal in Vietnam.

Irrussianality
Explaining Afghanistan’s Collapse
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

See also

Reminiscence of the Future
OK, I Might As Well Say It.
Andrei Martyanov

7 comments:

  1. If we'd learned anything from Vietnam, we had never gone into The Stan in the fucking first place!

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  2. Afghanistan hasn't collapsed. It's borders are intact.

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  3. Here, I can do similar clickbair:
    Explaining Syria's Collapse - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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  4. The moral is that where the population is feeble minded and immoral as seems to be the case with far too many Afghans (e.g. the police chief "Dado" mentioned in the article), only a relatively brutal regime like the Taliban can hold the country together. Of course in suggesting Afghans are an inferior species to Europeans I'm being thoroughly racist. I make no apologies.

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  5. It goes: kingdom phylum class order family genus species

    Species is the last designation in the taxonomy…

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  6. Well Ralph is retreating into Darwinism to try to explain what is going on…. all you other Darwin lovers here should agree with him…

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