Afghanistan, US, and lessons for India

The new American unpredictability makes an already turbulent world more complex to deal with

For once, President Donald Trump could complain justifiably of an unfair press. American media “experts” roundly criticised his Afghanistan speech last week, even those not just eager to find another fault, repeated age-old analyses without any more workable solutions. Unless they mean, just get out. There are wider lesson in all this, both about international relations generally and about our challenges, which need examination.

The fact is, as so often in life and in history, there are no solutions: When existing circumstances do not permit one, you must wait – and work – for circumstances to change, meanwhile coping with