Good Lord, I find myself agreeing with @HYUFD. It's been a long while since that last happened! (View Post)

Well, Afghans have been fighting for the Ghani government, but they are giving up because it looks hopeless. I'm not sure what your wider point is. Yes, it was a messy situation with no good sol… (View Post)

Biden was half-right when he said the Taliban are not the formidable fighting force that the Vietcong were. That is the tragic truth behind his catastrophic blunder; unlike the Vietcong, the Taliban … (View Post)

That's not right. Yes, they fled elsewhere and weren't completely neutralised, but they were on the run and in hiding. Nothing like the near-complete, undisturbed freedom of action Al Queda… (View Post)

This is Afghanistan. If it were easy to drone the hell out of them, we wouldn't be having this discussion. (View Post)