1. Ryan Crocker, former ambassador to Afghanistan under Barack Obama, has a NY Times piece which is a perfect distillation of the ridiculous new Blob conventional wisdom that Afghanistan could have been a long-term intervention like South Korea or Germany but Biden fucked it up
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2. Crocker's crock: "Biden’s decision to withdraw all U.S. forces destroyed an affordable status quo that could have lasted indefinitely at a minimum cost in blood and treasure." Affordable for whom? At whose minimum cost?pic.twitter.com/wxNd9JtDKH
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3. Some thoughts on the new Afghanistan war apologetics and what they get wrong.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/lies-about-afghanistan?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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