{UAH} Karma has no menu: 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁: 𝗚𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶'𝘀 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗳𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁.

History repeats itself, they say.  When Afghanistan's now-ousted president Ashraf Ghani wrote more than three decades ago about the then imminent fall of a "puppet regime", he may not have imagined he would be in a similar predicament later in life. 

The article written by the then academic in Los Angeles Times on February 15, 1989, has been dug up by social media sleuths and is doing the rounds online this week. 

Written after the former Soviet Union's exit from Afghanistan on being defeated at the hands of the US and Pakistan-backed Mujahideen, Ghani's article started with the line: "The Soviets have left Afghanistan, making the collapse of the besieged puppet regime in Kabul just a matter of time." Fast forward to circa 2021, and it's the Americans who are making the hasty retreat after two decades of war. The Taliban, which essentially is an offshoot of the Mujahideen backed by Pakistan, are in control of capital Kabul. And on Sunday, Ghani's regime collapsed. He himself fled the country as Taliban occupied his presidential palace. He reportedly first went to Tajikistan, and is going to leave for US.

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