Something to Think About

Stephen Green guest blogs regularly at Instapundit, today he writes something semi-profound about the fecklessness of the Afghanistan military.

You can’t get people to fight for an imaginary country. And as I’ve been writing here and elsewhere for years, Afghanistan isn’t a country — it’s a hole in the map where neighboring countries aren’t.

I'm no expert but this feels right. Afghanistan seems what the U.S. Cavalry used to call "Indian country," basically a lawless Hobbesian state of nature. Plus its warlords are proud pedophiles.