Recommended - Curse of the Khyber Pass

I recommend the insightful article Curse of the Khyber Pass by Milton Bearden in the March/April 2009 issue of The National Interest. As he points out, since the time of Alexander the Great foreigners have tried to conquer and manage Afghanistan, with uniform failure. If only we would pay attention to history, we would not try to repeat the same mistakes foreigners have made for many centuries now in that region of the world.