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326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues"

The Fifth Column

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The Big Problem With Afghanistan Was the Scope Crawl

I just want to celebrate and encourage and fully endorse the careful, thoughtful, non-interventionist approach to these things. We should never go anywhere and we should never do anything. There's no enemy bad enough that we shouldn't shoot them in the fucking face at some point. But a genuine appreciation for just how complicated and messy the world is and how difficult these projects are.

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