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How America Failed Afghanistan — And Itself

There Are No Good Ways to End an Empire. But There Are Even Worse Ones. 

umair
Aug 15, 2021
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Image Credit: BBC News

By tomorrow, probably, the beheadings will begin. Journalists, translators, aides, security forces. Women have already been “rounded up” and told they’re going to be forcibly “married” to Taliban members. Covid vaccines aren’t allowed to be distributed anymore.

That’s what Afghanistan looks like now, in the wake of America’s sudden …

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