The impossible truth about Afghanistan

Liza Anvary, an Afghan refugee (Ximena Borrazas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The impossible truth about Afghanistan by Cheryl Benard on Unherd opens with this:

In “The Impossible Fact”, the 20th-century German poet Christian Morgenstern tells the story of an academic who undergoes a traumatising experience. He staggers home, wraps damp cloths around his forehead and collapses into his armchair to process what has happened. In the end, he comforts himself by concluding that he must have imagined the whole thing, because if something “shouldn’t be true, it can’t be true”.

She goes on to liken our western foreign policy experts to this academic because what is happening in Afghanistan is not what they expected, therefor it must not be true. She points out the discrepencies between what our western experts say must be happening and what has actually happened in Afghanistan. I like it because it reinforces my opinion that the people in charge of our foreign policy are a pack of raving hyenas that have no idea what they are doing.

She does dabble in women's rights, but I think that is pretty much wishful thinking. Hill people steeped in Islam are not going to be inclined to change their ways, especially on the advice of raving hyenas.