The Afghan Tradition or the Chronicle of a Death Foretold

One of the best documentaries on Afghanistan, detailing how and why the Soviets fails and explaining why most certainly we are going to fail too.

I will never forget my Afghan colleague and fraternal brother at Oxford, when we first met and asked him about the situation in Afghanistan:

“Dimitris, Afghan people do not resent invasions. We permit them, if not actively encourage them. I do not remember a time when we fought an…