Against ISIS, Try Patience
Events, when seen through the prism of history, often take on an aura of inevitability. But they are usually far from inevitable. So it was with the initial war in Afghanistan that began after 9/11 — the war we fleetingly won.
I was the senior C.I.A. officer in the region from 1999 to 2002 and I know that things could have turned out very differently. Unfortunately, few American leaders have thought to ask what would have happened if the two Pashtun tribal leaders who were willing and able in 2001 to lead a successful American-backed rebellion against the Taliban had failed.… Seguir leyendo »