In the dislocation that followed August 2021, Afghanistan’s exiled elite faced a defining question: how to serve a country they could no longer physically inhabit. The answers have varied, but few contrasts are as stark, or as consequential, as that between Aziz Polad and Lt. Gen. Sami Sadat. Their divergence is not simply personal. It … Continue reading Aziz Polad and Sami Sadat : A Vision of Preservation and a Vision of War