The wrong choice of regime in Kabul

Afghanistan has been lost politically. There are however, innumerable ongoing nation-building campaigns across the globe, that would benefit from the insights of this disaster, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill.
U.S. Marines are pictured on Aug. 20 participating in an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
The catastrophically abrupt collapse of the Western sponsored Kabul government was not inevitable. The principal cause of the collapse, previously opaque, is now clearly the complete failure by the foreign aid community to create robustly legitimate state structures in Kabul, without which no Afghan...

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