THE scene at NATO headquarters in Kabul on December 9th was enough to give President-elect Donald Trump a fit. In a dusty walled garden surrounded by high walls and watchtowers, American officers and civilians huddled in a blue-painted gazebo with a group of young Afghan girl scouts, making bracelets.
Mr Trump has to yet sketch out an Afghan policy in more than the broadest of strokes, but has made it clear what he dislikes. At rallies during the election campaign and in a speech just this week in North Carolina, he promised cheering supporters that he would put an end to nation-building overseas and start spending money on roads, bridges and American airports that are, he grumbles, “horrible, like Third World countries.” Mr Trump, a skilful story-teller, has a tale to tell about why the most powerful country on earth has been fighting terrorism from Afghanistan to Iraq and beyond for 15 years, without seeming to win. His story involves naïve, chump-like leaders who foolishly toppled foreign autocrats—“foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” as he puts it—instead of applying brutal, unsqueamish violence to the single task...Continue reading
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