Source: A times:
By M K Bhadrakumar
Writing in the Los Angeles Times a year ago, predicting with extraordinary prescience how exasperating the American efforts to negotiate an Afghan settlement would turn out to be when the crunch time comes, Peter Tomsen who was president Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to the Mujahideen in the 1980s and is undoubtedly a richly experienced regional expert – he was inexplicably marginalized, though, by the late Richard Holbrooke – compared such efforts to the woes of a bazaar merchant in the Hindu Kush trying to balance the weight of frogs on opposite trays of a produce scale.
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