Excellent article by Samuel Moyn, a professor at Yale, on the US creating a world of endless war, featured in yesterday's Guardian on-line. Particularly powerful in its understanding of Obama's involvement and genuine thoughtfulness in the process (of the legitimisation of drone strikes) and its readiness to identify him as something close to the villain of the piece despite him being sincerely well-meaning.
I suppose this is all at something of a tangent to recent events in Afghanistan, but it strikes me that without some understanding of the wider context any attempt to grasp what is happening there must necessarily fail and leave us flailing in a disturbing darkness.
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