There's the sunk cost fallacy—the fact that we've wasted 20 years on a stupid war is more reason to stop it, not less. But there's also an obligation you incur when you occupy a country for that long, to the people whose lives are intertwined with your presence, for good or bad
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Missing from much discussion of the Middle East and Central Asia is the fact that it's full of intelligent human beings, with agency not a geopolitical chess board, and maybe talking and listening to them more would be a way out of the senseless futility of the last 20 years
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I'm sympathetic to the idea of admitting Afghans and Iraqis as refugees, but maybe they want to be something other than refugees? Tempting as it is to say "just end the wars", it's not too late to start treating people with respect and giving them some agency in ending those wars
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If you've seen good reporting, whether news or essays or books, from Afghanistan on the Afghan perspective, I'd love to read some. Please post!
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Here is a trailer (via
@zygmuntzajac) for what looks like a phenomenal 10-episode travelogue by a Polish couple hitchhiking through Afghanistan. Audio is in Polish (and Dari, and Russian, and an Afghan speaking Polish...) but there are English subtitleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2yQKfblws&list=PL92t_hWZdNQuJHO-yPfvq3coIMs5v2xpF …Show this thread
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I was actually just trying to find polls or any kind of public information on how Afghans feel about US presence and withdrawal, but gave up after sorting through hundreds of hits for US and global opinion polls
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I mean, yes, but, the US government saying, "they want us to be here," and then parading out the warlord that the CIA is funding is exactly what we've had for the past 20 years. I don't know that I could trust anything I hear from Afghans about the US, filtered as it would be?
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Or like, let's mourn the 2400 lives lost in the war ... um ....
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