The History of Foreign Interventions in Afghanistan

The history of er foreign interventions in afghanistane is obviously the the hook for this discussion. The background against which we're talking a is one that is haunts both the former invaders who came to a variety of unsatisfactory ends, or the afghans themselves. And so there's a whole variety of historical ghosts, an ethnic folt lines, which are completely visible and present for every afghan who talks about this, and which is largely invisible to to outsiders. Unless we understand those foot lines, both ethnic and historical, we are apt to fall into a sort ofcass that we've have in the last month.