‘Defeat was inevitable’: our panel weighs in on the Afghanistan catastrophe
by Fatima Bhutto , Stephen Wertheim, Moira Donegan, H from US news | The Guardian on (#5NGXT)
Our panel weighs in on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath
In the spring of 1996, Owais Tohid, a well-known Pakistani journalist, travelled around Afghanistan speaking to Taliban fighters and commanders. The west didn't understand them, they told him again and again. Americans have the clocks," a young Talib quoted Mullah Omar, but we have the time."
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