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The unedifying Afghan blame game

19 August 2022

4:00 PM

19 August 2022

4:00 PM

A year ago we scuttled out of Afghanistan. We abandoned the aim we and the Americans had proclaimed so noisily of bringing Afghanistan into the twenty-first century so that the Taliban could never triumph again. We left behind many Afghans who had helped us at the risk of their lives.

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