For Americans in 2021, the ordeal in Afghanistan is the ultimate Afghanistanism. But a singular tragedy has been unfolding over the past several weeks in Afghanistan, and poll results show that Americans do not consider the identity or character of the country’s government to be of singular importance. To Americans concerned about the coronavirus, battling over vaccine passports, troubled about the economy or preoccupied with climate change, the struggle over the destiny of Afghanistan is a quarrel in a faraway country, between people about whom we know nothing.