The Disinformation State in Afghanistan

The US by 2012 when I was there had no reason to be in Afghanistan anymore. The things that we claimed to be accomplishing were obviously not working, he says. It took only a few months on the ground in Afghanistan to understand that they were attempts to transpose a secular rationalist nation state framework onto what is essentially a tribal society. This sort of strategic thinking which combined profound incoherence with equally powerful messianic impulses to transform the world became the beating heart of the war on terror.