India, June 14 -- If Afghanistan had remained a strategic partner of the United States until today, what would the U.S. war with Iran have looked like? A sustained and active U.S. presence in Afghanistan could have played a significant role in decisively winning a conflict with Iran

Afghanistan has pretty much disappeared from Western public view save for an occasional story of brutality towards women and girls or a TikTok video showing some 9-year-old girl being married off-sold really-to an elderly man. Add to that, the very recent battles between the Taliban and their Pakistani creators and enablers is an historic irony of "chickens coming home to roost". Another great irony is that Pakistan, which was the driving military force behin...