After more than 2,400 U.S. service member deaths, about 50,000 Afghan civilian deaths (some of those from U.S. drone strikes), 66,000 dead among Afghan military and police and tens of thousands of Taliban casualties, the 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan has come to a close, leaving the Taliban in control of the country.
What is the lesson we should learn from this catastrophe?
Perhaps it’s the warning about classic blunders so clearly elucidated by Barzini (Wallace Shawn) in 1987’s Princess Bride? “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”
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