Category: Afghanistan

A Pentagon study finds that “severe segregation” of the sexes contributes to “unusually common” homosexual behavior among Afghanistan’s Pushtun men. Ironically, Afghanistan is also one of the world’s most homophobic places, and as a result, the Pashtuns are “in almost complete denial” about their own proclivities. The Taliban, for example, are almost as well known for their frequent homosexuality as they are for their brutal killing of homosexuals. I’ve long suspected that societies — predominantly Islamic societies — that retard...

With a problem as complex as Afghanistan, I have felt some justifiable trepidation to enter an overcrowded field of underqualified experts and opine on what should be done there. The real experts are the Afghans themselves, though many of the Afghans with the best access to foreign audiences have their own agendas. The few Americans who speak with credibility are those with experience living and fighting there — men like Major Jim Gant, who embedded a team of half a...