Geopolitical trendies ran a new one up the international flagpole to see if anyone saluted. It claimed to be the magic formula on how to win in Afghanistan.
"Flipping the Taliban" is the new recipe for success in Afghanistan. In the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, Fotini Christia, a member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Semple -- an Irish official with the European Union delegation who was expelled from Afghanistan in December for his involvement in a Taliban reconciliation effort -- put forward their "flipping the enemy" thesis, which makes the exercise seem a tad harder than flipping hamburgers.
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