Interesting article on Astan...
 

Having spent two years of my life on the border between the contemporary Uzbekistan and Afghanistan as a Soviet Army conscript medic many years ago, my take on the Western withdrawal from this sad place is quite different from what might be called the op-ed page consensus.


More at:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/...-now-mr-putin/

Interesting read.

Astan & the Taliban:
 

Interesting Article, I agree, However, the source is what I find ambiguous. A former Soviet- Medic conscript. The author may be located in Langley, VA. and not Australia. The sentence structure and terminology have a familiar tone...

Good read. Thanks. Of course it also has the requisite quote from Kipling in the reader's comments too.

Finest Kind find! :lifter

Oh, and Tom Kelly, very astute observation on your part too. I thought I was reading the preamble to an area studies piece. So, how long before teams deploy alongside Taliban counter-parts into Uyghur province of China? Looks like Free Pineland v Occupied Pineland to me. :D