HMM: U.S. ‘Did Not Fail’ In Afghanistan, Legendary French Writer Says. “What keeps America’s State Department and the West’s thinking and writing classes from seeing the realities in Central Asia, West Africa and elsewhere, BHL said, is that they refuse to see the power of tribes and religions to cause conflicts. They only seem to understand economic conflicts — who gets what — and can’t grasp that humans will kill and die for non-material things.”

Well, they see everything in terms of graft, basically.