“The debates and decisions in Washington, Kabul, and Doha that preceded the Islamic Republic’s fall took place largely in private. Hundreds of pages of meeting notes, transcripts, memoranda, e-mails, and documents, as well as extensive interviews with Afghan and American officials, present a dispiriting record of misjudgment, hubris, and delusion from the very start.” Steve Coll and Adam Entous dig in for The New Yorker: The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan. “A trove of unreleased documents reveals a dispiriting record of misjudgment, hubris, and delusion that led to the fall of the Western-backed government.” Misjudgment, hubris, and delusion. An all-too-familiar hat trick.