# The Ides of August

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Sarah Chayes]]
- Full Title: The Ides of August
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.sarahchayes.org/post/the-ides-of-august

## Highlights
- I and too many other people to count spent years of our lives trying to convince U.S. decision-makers that Afghans could not be expected to take risks on behalf of a government that was as hostile to their interests as the Taliban were. Note: it took me a while, and plenty of my own mistakes, to come to that realization. But I did.