BIden's judgement on this has been poor certainly, but Trump wanted them out even sooner and faster. I would say it's primarily on Trump, but with Biden also sharing a smaller proportion of… (View Post)

I can't see anything robust about Trump's deal to free 5000 taliban commanders and set an exit date. As I remember, before Trump's presidency, Obama, Clinton and Biden all wanted to ke… (View Post)

Imran Khan is in fact probably the only man to stop this blowing up into a full-scale conflict again in the short-term, let alone any long-term prospect of moderating the Taliban, or smoothing and re… (View Post)

Twitter is full of thousands of approbatory tweets from Pakistan. If this newest incarnation of the Taliban can indeed be moderated or reset in their relationship with the outside world in any way, I… (View Post)

Kabul in the 1960's. Like Tehran, miniskirts and freedoms . https://allthatsinteresting.com/1960s-afghanistan (View Post)