As a journalist, book author, and sometime adviser with frequent visits to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2015, I offer this distillation of lessons that we might learn from the United States’ longest …

If Westerners are shocked at political developments in Tunisia, it’s because they described it as a straightforward success for too long. 

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.