When I stepped off a C-130 turboprop at Kabul airport in October 2003 to begin 19 months in command of coalition forces, Afghanistan was already famed as the graveyard of empires. Here was a nation hostile to invaders, with a population widely regarded as xenophobic fundamentalist Muslims. I was prepared to find suspicion and hostility. But what I heard instead was one question: “You Americans are not going to abandon us again, are you?”
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