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Month: August 2021

America’s Long Wars

America’s Long Wars

Right now, much of our energy seems to be going towards blaming someone (take your pick: Biden, Trump, Bush, etc.) for the current Afghanistan debacle. What we really should be doing (and I am sure that there are people quietly doing this) is figuring out why we, the country known as America, have been in these long, drawn-out wars since the middle of the 1950’s (think Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan). I know that there have been some successes (e.g.,…

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Everyone is writing about Afghanistan now. I do not have any special expertise in the situation there, but it is now obvious that much of what we (the US and other allied nations) thought we had accomplished there was a mirage. The main question for us now is why did the experts seemingly buy into believing in this mirage for so long? An important subsidiary question is what kind of structural changes do we need to make to prevent this…

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