Afghanistan Through A Peace Corps Lens

An old joke: A motorist gets a flat tire outside a mental institution. As he puts on the spare, one of the patients quietly studies him from over the fence. When the motorist is finished, he reaches for the lug-nuts, but they fall into a storm drain. He curses and mutters to himself, “Now what am I going to do?” The mental patient says, “Remove one nut from each of the other three tires.” The guy stares at him in amazement. “How did you think of that?” The patient answers, “I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid.”
Arguably, two critical assumptions responsible for the events in Iraq (and the pending disaster i....