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2023-03-01 Afghanistan

SIGAR: Ashraf Ghani’s decisions led to collapse of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, hasty US withdrawal led to Afghan govt collapse

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-01 01:49|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 ...More than thirty years ago - while the Russians were still in Afghanistan - I read a superb summary of the situation there by James Dunnigan. He pointed out that the Soviets' biggest mistake may not have been the actual invasion, but rather the assumption that Afghanistan was something resembling a modern nation.

They have NEVER been that. They are a loose concentration of tribes, where ties of clan, family, and faith will always be more important than anything else. And one of their core beliefs is that no matter what, it's always cool to screw with the outlanders.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-03-01 07:47|| 2023-03-01 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Dunnigan was correct.

“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
~ German philosopher Georg Hegel

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-01 07:54|| 2023-03-01 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 A nation is one of those "societal constructs" that we are continually being lectured are merely patriarchal, rayciss mistakes to be expunged from the surface of the planet.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-01 07:56|| 2023-03-01 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 a loose concentration of tribes, where ties of clan, family, and faith will always be more important than anything else

So the basic D.I.E. end state.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-01 08:02|| 2023-03-01 08:02|| Front Page Top

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