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Flat White

Kabul: some good must come of this

18 August 2021

4:00 AM

18 August 2021

4:00 AM

I’ve had a few thoughts on Afghanistan, which is a disaster I was against in the first instance, but once you’re in, you can’t go back to your initial conditions. So if I were either of the last two United States presidents, who are to blame for this “Saigon on Steroids”, then I would have regarded it as a more-or-less perpetual police action.

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