Kabul
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Kabul is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 01, 2021 and September 13, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Kabul had a 6% chance of falling before September”; “Taliban returned to Kabul in the midst of the final American withdrawal”; “villa which served as al-Qaeda’s guest house in Kabul”. It most often appears alongside 9/11, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda.
Metadata
- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 01, 2021
- Last seen: September 13, 2024
Appears In
- 21
- Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
- Your Book Review: Nine Lives
Related Pages
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- 11 (2 shared issues)
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- Afghanistan (2 shared issues)
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- al-Qaeda (2 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (2 shared issues)
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- Bryan Caplan (2 shared issues)
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- CIA (2 shared issues)
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- critical race theory (2 shared issues)
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- Iraq (2 shared issues)
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- ISIS (2 shared issues)
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- Kuwait (2 shared issues)
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- London (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
— The superforecasters have a Substack now, although they don’t seem to have posted any more after making a July forecast that Kabul had a 6% chance of falling before September (which it did).
Inline links: have a Substack now
The War in Afghanistan (2001-2021): a series of UN Resolutions justified, out of self-defence, the US invasion of Afghanistan, overthrow of the Taliban government, and targeting of al-Qaeda, in spite of the failure of nation building when the Taliban returned to Kabul in the midst of the final American withdrawal
Al-Muhajir probably assumed I would go away reassured and impressed. I didn't. Instead I took advantage of a long-planned trip to the villa which served as al-Qaeda's guest house in Kabul to consult its well stocked library of Islamic texts. I sought out the fatwah - in the twenty-eighth volume of a thirty-seven-volume encyclopaedia - and found that it had no relevance whatsoever.