The lodge where I stay in Kabul was badly damaged on Oct. 8 when a suicide car bomb exploded 80 meters down the road near the Indian Embassy. Seventeen Afghans working in photocopy shops near the embassy were killed and another 60 wounded... 75 windows were blown out. The next day I was talking with the owner, who, for the third time in three years, had to fork out $3,000 to fix his windows. I asked him what would happen if NATO pulls out of Afghanistan? He replied without hesitation, looking me straight in the eyes and obviously referring to the Taliban and their allies: "They will kill us all." His comment struck a still-raw nerve. Thirty-five years ago, in November, 1974, I was in Siem Reap, Cambodia. As a young backpacker I was foolhardy enough to spend six weeks poking around a country at war... I met a Cambodian man who spoke English... The Khmer Rouge controlled the Angkor temples and the surrounding countryside. There were intense firefights at night. At one point my host turned to me and said: "I hope America doesn't abandon us. If they do, the Communists will kill us all."The New York Slimes, working overtime in their role as partisan media shills, planting the meme that Afghanistan is Vietnam. Thanks neverdem.
Huh? Did you read the article? The man is saying he learned his lesson a long time ago from the Cambodian genocide that America shouldn’t casually dismiss the fears of people who think that being abandoned to their fate by America will lead to their deaths or enslavement.
He’s not planting a meme, he seems almost to be saying we need to get to work on winning the war and if that means more troops, so be it.