The Taliban’s old boast – “You have the watches, but we have the time” – has come true. The billions spent since America and its allies went into Afghanistan after 9/11, the loss of foreign troops and the much greater bloodshed among Afghans in the fight to keep the insurgents at bay, the vast efforts to establish democracy and create a civil society: all appear to have come to nothing.
18 August 2021, The Tablet
Afghanistan: Abandoned and betrayed
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