After Osama bin Laden got capped and the news entered its endless speculpinionating echo-chamber mode, I felt ready for a book about the intricacies and paradoxes of the war in Afghanistan. When I originally sat down to write this essay (longer than 1,000 words, and you don’t have to call it a “blog post”), I… Continue reading ‘On Afghanistan and Bing West’s ‘The Wrong War’’