Rory Stewart: A new kind of Tory

The UK's Telegraph has an editorial/commentary on Rory Stewart today. The opening paragraph is as follows:

"Britain doesn't make men like Rory Stewart any more. The former diplomat has trekked 6,000 miles across Asia; at 28, wrote a best-selling book, The Places in Between, about the walk; was governor of a province in Iraq at 29; and last year, as well as becoming a Harvard professor, was hailed by Esquire magazine as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. Brad Pitt has already bought the rights to his biopic. And he's only 36."

You can read the full article here.

Afghanistan: A War We Cannot Win by Rory Stewart

In a recent editorial in the UK's Telegraph, Rory Stewart argues that the threat posed by al-Qaeda is exaggerated and the West's vision of a rebuilt Afghanistan flawed.