Afghanistan

The withdrawal of UK and American troops from Afghanistan and the rapid capitulation of the local army may have been a surprise to both of these countries but not to anyone that even limited common sense. For years the Afghan army was bolstered by numerous nations and every time they got into situations beyond their control help was supplied immediately so they never became battle hardened. So many times when I was small I heard children who were being threatened with violence by bigger or more aggressive classmates use the phrase ‘my dads bigger than your dad, well the Afghans Dad was quite big but he has left the country.

So now the Taliban are now in charge but are they capable of running a country, I hope so, but doubt it. Most of them have spent twenty years fighting, they had a directive in life and I suspect they enjoyed the excitement of combat, and now the set of tram tracks has disappeared with no defining signposts to tell them which direction to travel in. Most walk around aimlessly with a look of puzzlement on their faces, they have achieved their dream and won the war with no thought of what might happen afterwards.

Make sure your dream is impossible to achieve and just try to get a close to it as you can then you will always have a direction to travel in.