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This week has been highly distressing for millions of Afghans like me. We witnessed, in real-time, the Taliban take over Afghanistan two decades after the US began its so-called "war on terror." But this catastrophe could have been avoided -- and, more to the point, it should have been.

August 19, 2021 at 12:52PM https://ift.tt/3mjry5c week has been highly distressing for millions of Afghans like me. We witnessed, in real-time, the Taliban take over Afghanistan two decades after the US began its so-called "war on terror." But this catastrophe could have been avoided -- and, more to the point, it should have been.