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You write, "Thomas Johnson, an Afghan expert at the Naval Postgraduate School ".
Don't you expect that an Afghan expert is required to have lived in Afghans for atleast a year, have fluency in one of the native languages (Dari or Pashtu), and have completed graduate courses related to Afghanistan or have written his master's thesis on Afghanistan.
Mr. Johnson has never lived in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Occassional trips to Afghanistan or Pakistan to interview people don't suffix.
Mr. Johnson has never spoken a word of Dari or Pashto. Language is the gatekeeper to understand culture or a people.
Mr. Johnson never lists where he got his master's degree from. When you check the Naval Postgraduate School website you notice that crucial piece of information missing. He also does not correct people who assume he must have a prestigious PH.D. during meetings, conferences, seminars or when considering him for publications in peer reviewed journals. By faking this Ph.D. perception he passes himself off as a doctorate trained expert on Afghanistan.
By very cautious of the sophmoric expert who does not have training, education, language abilities, faking his credentials.
The expert is usually a profound philosopher distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment, but Mr. Johnson does only quote Kipling literature when discussing Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kipling, the guy who wrote "The White Man's Burden".
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