Lessons of Kabul: If you play, play to win
The West didn't play to win, and that includes tolerating corruption in Afghanistan, accepting Pakistan’s coddling of the Taliban, and being dragged into a war of attrition
President Joe Biden can insist all he wants that America embarked upon the Afghan misadventure to combat terror and not to nation-build. It isn’t exactly true. The Bush Doctrine in a nutshell aimed to export democracy and “Western values” to hitherto benighted countries whose popu…
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