Saturday 4 September 2021

A BRIEF POST-MORTEM OF AFGHANISTAN

Now that the dust has settled and everyone has had a chance to take a breath, perhaps now is a good time to talk about Afghanistan and the withdrawal of the US and its allies.

There are no particularly good starting places, so we'll begin by pointing at and addressing the very obvious elephant in the room; the spectre of US isolationism.

Or rather, the utter madness that this sentiment represents.