Views and opinions on what to do in Afghanistan will invariably be many, and conflicted. It is preferable, therefore, bank on plain, oft-forgotten or ignored facts to visualise the future east of Suez and what magnet landlocked Afghanistan holds for America. And for that matter what that tribal society has meant for a series of empires in the past. While apparently incomparable, the “two As” (America & Afghanistan) are a study in glaring contrast and visible contradiction. Taken together, they’re poles apart. No common ground on history, geography, culture, economics, religion, philosophy, anthropology, contiguity, tradition… But Afghanistan continues to...
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