Welcome back! This, the second ever edition of “Mind Scourge,” focuses on Afghanistan, and America’s ongoing military presence - now in its eighteenth year - in that much-contested nation. It would do us much good to dwell on the significance of this particular number: a full generation, the period during which a child comes of age. U.S. forces, in some instances, are now fighting amongst the Taliban, the Taliban’s compatriot Haqqani wing, and the Khorasan Province affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, people who were not yet born when the Islamic Emirate, the Taliban proto-state, was ensconced in Kabul, the Afghan capital. If this does not encapsulate, in and of itself, an indictment of U.S. policy in Afghanistan since the trauma of September 11, 2001, then I am unaware of what would.
On Afghanistan
On Afghanistan
On Afghanistan
Welcome back! This, the second ever edition of “Mind Scourge,” focuses on Afghanistan, and America’s ongoing military presence - now in its eighteenth year - in that much-contested nation. It would do us much good to dwell on the significance of this particular number: a full generation, the period during which a child comes of age. U.S. forces, in some instances, are now fighting amongst the Taliban, the Taliban’s compatriot Haqqani wing, and the Khorasan Province affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, people who were not yet born when the Islamic Emirate, the Taliban proto-state, was ensconced in Kabul, the Afghan capital. If this does not encapsulate, in and of itself, an indictment of U.S. policy in Afghanistan since the trauma of September 11, 2001, then I am unaware of what would.