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Flat White

Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism

25 June 2023

5:00 AM

25 June 2023

5:00 AM

Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced an enormous decline.

Whatever one might say about the incompetence and lack of foresight regarding US interventionism in the region, and there are abundances of each, girls had at least been allowed the basic right to go to school.

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