Success, it is said, has many parents, whereas failure is always an orphan. But in the case of Afghanistan, failure has four fathers. (I use the word “fathers” specifically as men have traditionally held power and so can be held accountable for most of the world’s ills to date.)
Read MoreKabul International Airport, technically Hamid Karzai International Airport, in the winter of 2011, with the Afghan Air Force’s Sukhoi Su-22M-4 on display. Photograph by Peretz Partensky.