

Afghanistan absolutely hasn’t been a hot spot for violence (relative to the rest of the world) for all of human history but Russian and British imperialism and the rivalry between the two Great powers from the 18th-20th centuries and the exploitation that came with it caused internal strife, political instability, vast inequality and religious extremism.












The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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