I’m on his mailing list because I sent him some $$ back in the day. Worthwhile read for sure, bump.
I’ve been saying for a decade or so that we needed to have exited Afghanistan after the punitive expedition phase, but before the meals on wheels phase. You can’t “nation build” when raw materials are lacking, as they are.
Michael, God bless you. But you are downplaying WAY too much the importance of Afghanistan to China. If we leave, they will have free play in that region, to our detriment.