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World

Autopsy of a failed war

16 August 2021

6:02 AM

16 August 2021

6:02 AM

The following essay is in Spectator World’s September edition, a special issue marking 20 years of the War on Terror. To get your copy please subscribe here.

‘Your country just betrayed us.’ So Haji Sakhi, a resident of Kabul, recently remarked to a New York Times reporter. ‘Look at what they brought on us,’ the 68-year-old Afghan continued.

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