the western predicament in Afghanistan is now becoming unsustainable.
The response to such acts ↑ by American soldiers as urinating on dead Afghans and burning ↑ copies of the Qur'an (both of which led to widespread fury and retaliatory attacks ↑ on American targets) strengthen ↑ the case that strategic reality in Afghanistan is becoming inexorable.
The massacre of sixteen Afghan civilians on 11 March by (it seems) a lone American soldier ↑ confirms in bleak fashion that the "AIM" concept can shed light on the Afghan endgame as much as it does the twisting Iranian crisis. This might yet be attributed to a "maverick", but it is certainly also an "incident" in the tripartite schema - and its sheer horror, especially the killing of children, makes it one of special extremity that also betrays a deep problem within the US military
The response to such acts ↑ by American soldiers as urinating on dead Afghans and burning ↑ copies of the Qur'an (both of which led to widespread fury and retaliatory attacks ↑ on American targets) strengthen ↑ the case that strategic reality in Afghanistan is becoming inexorable.
The massacre of sixteen Afghan civilians on 11 March by (it seems) a lone American soldier ↑ confirms in bleak fashion that the "AIM" concept can shed light on the Afghan endgame as much as it does the twisting Iranian crisis. This might yet be attributed to a "maverick", but it is certainly also an "incident" in the tripartite schema - and its sheer horror, especially the killing of children, makes it one of special extremity that also betrays a deep problem within the US military
