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The waste of life and treasure might finally be coming to an end, but we’ve learned nothing from it.
By Peter VAN BUREN
President Biden announced he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war that has killed some 2,300 Americans, an unknown number of Afghans, and cost trillions of dollars to accomplish nothing.
Biden speaks more plainly about failure than any previous president.
We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result. I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth.
The Impudent Ones, by Marguerite Duras Image: The New Press
Fans of Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) may be excited to learn that her debut novel,
The Impudent Ones [
Les Impudents], written in her mid-20s, has received its first English translation by Kelsey L. Haskett.
Duras was celebrated during her lifetime. She won the Prix Goncourt and other praise for novels and screenplays, including
Hiroshima Mon Amour, an iconic film directed by Alain Resnais.
To prepare for this review, I reread Duras s bestselling autobiographical novel
The Lover [
L Amant], published in 1984 and set in 1930s French Indochina. In that book, a nameless 15-year-old French girl ferries across the Mekong Delta to boarding school in Saigon. She meets a nameless older, wealthy Chinese man with whom she has an affair all sex and no words that lasts for two years until she returns to France. The girl comes from a bourgeois family on the decline; Papa is dead and Maman struggles to hold together her two
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