Terry M. (tmulcahy) -
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What was most interesting to find was that this story from 2002 accurately predicted what would happen in Afghanistan. It must have seemed, then, that the U.S. would have left that place long ago, and the U.S. part in the war there would not have dragged on for twenty years. If anyone had taken this book seriously then, we'd have abandoned that hell in 2003. No one won. No one could win. But the Afghanis lost. And they died in huge numbers. Afghanistan lies in post-apocalyptic ruins because the White House invaded Afghanistan to first destroy the terrorist training camps, and then decide that regime change would be a good thing too, not appreciating that England and Russia had failed to change a thing about that country. Rall made it clear, at the time, and it is clear in hindsight that direct observation on the ground would have yielded such observations long ago.
