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To read more columns dating back to 2011, please visit TFF blog. For columns dating back to 1997 please visit TFF old site 

Aug 30, 20216 min read

Myths of the exodus from Afghanistan

I like this. It’s from yesterday’s New York Times. “Senator Christopher Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut who supports President Joe...

Aug 23, 20214 min read

Iran’s atomic bomb?

The panic button on Iran is being pressed again. A report by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),...

Aug 16, 20213 min read

Out of Afghanistan.

The Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979 and withdrew, exhausted and demoralized, 10 years later. In Moscow a joke had long...

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