The American public is struggling for coherence on Afghanistan: https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1427755165143158784 More numbers in the thread, and here. Long story short, not much in the way of a partisan divide, but.
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Scott's post about the so-called "Afghanistan Papers" provides a good excuse to remind everyone that the recriminations, deflections, and finger-pointing are just getting started. It's important to keep that mind.
A wrote a bit at 1945 on the collapse of the ANA. An army is a manifestation of a social structure, and can never be fully independent of that social.
For a purely personal consumer choice, deciding not to get vaccinated sure seems to consume a lot of scarce resources: Joel Valdez isn’t in the hospital for covid-19, but he’s.
This is an interesting-looking preprint, involving a massive -- more than five million responses -- survey of the US population, conducted in collaboration with Facebook, in regard to shifting attitudes.
It cannot be emphasized enough that the military brass in charge of the Afghanistan aren't dumb enough to think that they were building an Afghan army that could independently fight.
Most of the attention on water supplies in the Southwest as to do with the region's exploding population. Fair enough, and I'm not sure the fountains at the Bellagio are.
