Afghanistan: Is there anything we can do beyond the Finger-Pointing Olympics we’ve been witnessing?
Can we learn something?
We know one thing for certain. The entire Middle East is a long tunnel with no cheese.
It was a long tunnel yesterday. It is a long tunnel today. It will be a long tunnel tomorrow.
It has been so for centuries, not decades. Name the period, and Western culture — not just us Americans — can be noted only for its delusional, self-righteous and destructive approach to different cultures.
Over the past 20 years, according to a study Brown University study, the combined cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been $6.4 trillion, a mind-boggling figure. Other figures differ, of course, but the cost has always been in the trillions.