re: #734 Escaped Hillbilly

The Haiti crises has overwhelmed the news cycle… I was only passingly aware of what happened in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has complexities that are hard to grasp, not the least of which that some of the people we are trying to help was us to fail so they can be their own big fish in a small dry pond. Call me a cynic, but part of me believes that some Afghans want to use situations like this to try and twist the US’s arm in one direction or another. The fact that we are supporting a guy in Afghanistan who was elected in a highly dubious voting process means we haven’t learned our lesson from doing similar things in other places - not the least of which is Haiti.