Politico
Opinion | Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms
Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of Pakistan: A Hard Country. From 1985 to 1998, he worked as a journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Easter
Once you made it clear you were packing up/no more military actions, that was it.
ReplyDeleteAnd once you physically start evacuating, panic will break out.
What’s interesting is that you’re not really going away. Well, not that far away — just a “few blocks down the street.”
My own realization that we were over our heads in Afghanistan came when I interviewed farmers who pretended to set up Taliban camps that the US would then bomb. The farmers would collect the remnants of millions of dollars worth of bombs and sell them for $100 as scrap metal. —Nicholas Kristof
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We just had a peaceful transfer of power in Nova Scotia. As in Afghanistan, it came as a complete surprise.
ReplyDeleteCanadians are congratulating Nova Scotians... in hopes that what happened here will occur at the federal level.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about Canadian provincial politics (except maybe Quebec and for the obvious reasons) is that no one cares. And if it's possible, even more so for Atlantic Canada. Except for the premier of Ontario, I can't name another provincial premier if my life depended on it. Funny thing though, I can name governor of Texas.
Delete"Houston, there's a problem."
ReplyDeleteThis is what the Premier of Nova Scotia will be hearing.
There's an unspoken rule in Canadian politics: Don't call an election in the middle of summer.
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