David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

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

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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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RT @CNNAfrica: Afghanistan's only girls' boarding school has evacuated dozens of students and staff to Rwanda, the president of the private… — PolitiTweet.org

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