It might have been helpful if a few more historians had provided input on the longstanding even historical cycle of competition between conservative and very religious clan/tribal leaders in Afghanistan and the more liberal, educated elite in Kabul. Before the Soviet invasion in 1979 there was a general live and let live modus vivendi arrangement but the effort following the invasion to make everyone good party members shattered the historical pattern.
It might have been helpful if a few more historians had provided input on the longstanding even historical cycle of competition between conservative and very religious clan/tribal leaders in Afghanistan and the more liberal, educated elite in Kabul. Before the Soviet invasion in 1979 there was a general live and let live modus vivendi arrangement but the effort following the invasion to make everyone good party members shattered the historical pattern.