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My point—which the warmongers at The Bulwark cannot comprehend—is that the US succumbed to a postmodern fantasy, imagining that we could turn an illiterate tribal society into a progressive-democratic nation, with Pride celebrations and master's programs in gender studies.
The neocons and the woke both fell to this illusion: the neocons believed they could install free markets and democratic institutions ("government in a box"); the woke believed they could change 1,000 years of backwards culture through TED Talks and gender programs.
Ultimately, the neocons sacrificed the sons and daughters of blue-collar America—and then shuffled to new think tanks, solicited donors for new publications, and puffed their hollow chests on MSNBC, claiming a moral high ground above Trump. History will not see them kindly.
Follow-up: The Spectator has a good write-up about Afghanistan's gender program debacle.https://spectatorworld.com/topic/did-gender-studies-lose-afghanistan/ …
Chris, I'm not sure it's about "woke" or postmodern thought... I am much more inclined to believe it was basically arrogance.
It's woke and postmodern in the sense that it's constructivist.
"they could change 1,000 years of backwards culture through TED Talks and gender programs."
OMG
can you please point us to a whitepaper in which a policy-maker institutes a gender studies program in afghanistan please and thank you
Chris, this was not what happened. They could have potentially on the war but lost it by 2005 due to a series of grave missteps that led to a rural insurgency emerging where there was none. I recommend reading No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal to learn about this.
Insinuating that there’s something we could have done all the way back in 2005 that would ensure there would be no insurgency today is ridiculous. That’s not how the Middle East works.
Pretty much
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