Well said, Wyot. What's happening in Afghanistan is terrible. An Afghan women's rights activist was interviewed on TV the other night in tears about how everything is unravelling. Rory Stewart, who's apparently now a fellow at Yale, was on the BBC this morning, again speaking sense, I think. Like others, he's foreseeing civil war.
Rory Stewart: Afghanistan is a betrayal and catastrophic failure
Afghan-born Yalda Hakim did a report the other day comparing the smooth talk of a Taliban representative in Doha to the words of a Taliban commander in Afghanistan intending to reintroduce the brutalities of their old regime.
Afghanistan war: Do the Taliban want to conquer or compromise?