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5 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is excellent. Liberals have this idea that a lot of Americans are just scared and hateful and want to harm innocent people to compensate for their own mental issues. That's not a good model of domestic politics, but does explain foreign policy. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Few American leaders... and few American families, except for those whose loved ones deployed over and over to fight a battle their leaders knew they could not win, were concerned about the fate of Afghanistan until Biden injured their pride by withdrawing."
"There was little public anguish... over the Trump administration quietly increasing civilian casualties more than 300 percent...But when Americans suffered the sting of defeat in a war they had not spent five minutes thinking about... only then, did Afghan lives start to matter"
"The preoccupation with American 'humiliation' in Afghanistan is a form of mourning for something the invasion was never able to do—make Americans feel as strong and invincible as they did the day before the towers fell."

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5 Oct
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I interviewed @sapinker about his new book for the @CSPICenterOrg podcast. A brief thread with some highlights. richardhanania.substack.com/p/rationality-…
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20 Sep
I'm the NYT today on the real lessons of Afghanistan. The generals and think tankers who supported the war are representative of a much larger problem. nytimes.com/2021/09/20/opi…
The last US-backed president of Afghanistan wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States.” In the war, those with the most subject matter expertise tended to be most wrong. This is a lot more common than you think. The answer isn’t populism, it’s better incentives and institutions. ImageImage
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Just now reading No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal. You know about American incompetence in Afghanistan, but Gopal is unique in showing how the occupation looked on the ground, and destroys the narrative of a well-meaning America just being too ambitious. Thread.
In one Afghan district, there was a dispute over which side was the legitimate government. Both sides were accused of being Taliban by their enemies. What did the US do? It went and killed both sides, tortured the survivors, and then awarded medals to the troops involved.
A warlord built a business empire off the occupation, selling the US land he stole from locals, getting the US to take out his rivals by accusing them of being Taliban. The US military dropped fliers that said Afghans who cooperated could “Get Wealth and Power Beyond Your Dreams"
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And almost all the most successful self-made entrepreneurs will still be men, and we'll still hear about how it's due to sexism and the old boy network. wsj.com/articles/colle…
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