The Past Speaks

“If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start.”

Have a look at this article on Foreign Policy. It is applied history at its finest, drawing on academic work on the political and cultural history of Afghanistan. The author’s point isn’t that Afghanistan can or will be won by the Western powers. Rather, it is to show that many of historical arguments that have been made to show that the war is unwinnable are rather shoddy.

Ok, now it’s back to work.