World history at warp speed (Just World News)

So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a
lot in recent months and years… (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank ‘End of
History’ Fukuyama? We don’t hear a lot from him these days, do we?)

This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gatherings.
At one end of the Med, leaders from Afghanistan and 13 other countries have
been meeting in Istanbul, to try to figure out the shape of the country’s
post-U.S. security structure. Well, that’s not how it’s been openly described
there, I grant you. The non-U.S. participants have been too polite to describe
in full detail just what a terrible state Afghanistan is in, ten years after
the U.S.-led invasion and occupation, and two years after Obama announced his
decision to “surge” more U.S. troops into the country– thereby, quite
voluntarily, making the war “his own.”

Back in late 2009, I wrote, in this piece in Boston Review, that the best
explanation I could give for Obama having made such an evidently counter-
productive decision was because he was planning to use that surge as political
cover for a later drawdown/withdrawal…. As is …

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