David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

The population of Afghanistan almost doubled in the 20 years of US presence. Poverty + lots of young men = trouble. Trouble + remoteness + strategic unimportance = disengagement sooner or later. 5/x https://t.co/Ly2GqKkvRj — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 25, 2021

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And an effective central state for Afghanistan was never in the cards. The country cannot be made to operate that way. The goal in Afghanistan escalated from "kill bin Laden/uproot al Qaeda" (doable) to "save Afghanistan from itself" (not doable). 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 25, 2021

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The lesson of Afghanistan is not that the US is washed up as a great power. The lesson is that the US is such a great power, militarily and economically, that it is continually tempted to try hopeless things that nobody else on earth - including China - would ever attempt. END — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 25, 2021