I said what I had to say about the Afghanistan mission at large. Certainly there is plenty of better-worse to add about particulars of its final phase and ending. I’m sad and I’m angry, but even so, I’m not sure I’ll be doing any of that adding. We went to The Boot. Check it out … Read more
I have a lot of strange errands and appointments right now. I’m in town with unexpectedly recovered time between two of them, so I’m blogging from the truck on the southwest corner of Jordan and Holmes. The largest chapter of my professional life to date comes to an end this week, and another chapter begins … Read more
As I type Taliban militants are flooding the streets of Kabul, and the president of Afghanistan has fled the country. Will we learn this time? Is this the one that takes? Is this the obscenely expensive (blood and treasure) attempt to externally impose modern Western values on people who have not only never held them, … Read more