Columns, Opinions
It was always going to end this way in Afghanistan
By Dick Polman
Anyone who professes to be shocked by the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has not been paying attention.
It was always bound to happen. It was merely delayed because Uncle Sam kept his trillion-dollar finger in the dike for 20 years. Were we fated to remain forever, in a land that had already proved fatally inhospitable to the British and the Russians and Alexander the Great?
The harbingers of failure had long been obvious, but most Americans, benumbed by the war, had long ago stoppe...