It’s not true that failure is an orphan. Afghanistan today is like Freddy Krueger, “the son of a hundred homicidal maniacs”, whose nurse mother was gang-raped by inmates of a lunatic asylum. The fathers of Vietnam 2.0 are too many to count, though the circular finger-pointing helps to identify many of them.
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