Afghanistan's tragedy: From Reagan's "nation of heroes" to Trump's "hellhole on Earth"

Afghanistan's tragedy: From Reagan's "nation of heroes" to Trump's "hellhole on Earth"

On the night before Thanksgiving, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had served with the CIA in the war against the Taliban regime, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C. (One of them, Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, later died of her injuries; the other, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, was critically injured but is likely to recover.) In his comments on the tragedy, Donald Trump called Afghanistan a “hellhole on eart…