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Afghanistan
Joe Biden's Afghanistan betrayal is captured by war correspondent RICHARD PENDLEBURY
2021-08-21
Long. Like Besoeker's piece about the SigInt (if that’s the right term) translator, worth reading every word for lessons learnt.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] While watching the West’s lamentable flight from Afghanistan this week, it has been impossible not to cast back my mind 20 years. To ‘liberated’ Kabul in the first spring after what was then seen as the Taliban’s final defeat.

Much of the outskirts of the capital lay in ruins after two decades of war. But peace had come. And so I found myself perched in the gods of a derelict cinema that had been closed down by the joyless mullahs of the ousted regime.

Unfolding below me was apparent proof of an extraordinary sea change; as sudden and antithetical to what had gone before as the shaming scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport are to us today.
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