Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"
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The Importance of Progress in Afghanistan
The book lays bare a stark truth that 20 years of posturing by policy elites and intellectuals could not mask colon, the Afghan state and military were fiction. The goal was we were going to bring democracy to Afghanistan. We were going to make it a strong state. And we wereGoing to make it an American ally. None of those things were achievable. You know, they weren't, you know, them weren't achieved.
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