A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events.
Robert D. Kaplan Quotes
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
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| Birth: | 23rd June, 1952 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist |
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Robert David Kaplan is an American journalist, currently a National Correspondent for The Atlantic magazine and a writer for Stratfor.
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