"The United States never understood Afghanistan. American planners thought they knew what the country needed, which was not quite the same as what its people wanted"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-taliban-understood-about-afghanistan/619864/?utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2021-08-23T16%3A01%3A01&utm_campaign=the-atlantic …
I like to joke that the Taliban could probably run San Francisco justice better than @chesaboudin