Pakistan has almost won in Afghanistan; the West has not yet lost
The single greatest and most fatal policy error in Afghan policy was made in the hostile exclusion of Pakistani involvement in Afghanistan’s development, principally by NATO’s insulation of Kabul’s against the need to negotiate with Pakistan.
MONTREAL—With the catastrophically abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan has almost won its nearly 30-year war with Afghanistan.
The principal cause of the collapse, previously opaque, is now clearly the complete failure by the foreign aid community to create robustly legitimate state...
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