One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.