The Graveyard of Imperial Ambition

TAdrien
2 min readAug 15, 2021

Here are the early hot takes on the failure of Afghanistan (Citations not really needed, since all of twitter is repeating the same points. The Afghanistan Papers is the real source. )

For me, There’s a lot we can still do for women activists, internally displaced people, and all those who aided us. These are real lives experiencing unimaginable tragedy, and we owe them our best effort.

  1. The execution of the withdrawal was informed by poor intelligence. The intel community probably underestimated the Taliban’s behind-the-scenes efforts to secure…

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