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Daily Times July 14, 2021 Afghanistan is famous for many things, the most diabolical notorious of which is its graveyard of empires. Ancient empires adopted the light-handed approach of doling out financial parcels to the tribal heads. Luckily, Alexander had a pass through the barren countryside with a scarce Afghan population. Otherwise, the Bucephalus(his horse) would have bogged down in the wilderness. The great game of the 19th century in which two empires engaged to disengage in Afghanistan was to pitch the tent at the edges of this necropolis. Recent history saw the USSR melted across the Amu Darya and the emergence of Putin’s Russia. For the last twenty years the exceptional superpower, the US, has strolled across the necropolis of empires but as the luck would have it, retreated in the name of drawdown. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted on the occasion that “A war that president Biden continue to feel does not have a military solution.” ....