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Afghanistan’s fall — and our disgrace

18 August 2021

3:12 PM

18 August 2021

3:12 PM

If you go into someone else’s house and trash it, you have a moral as well as a legal obligation to either restore the damage you have caused, or compensate the homeowner.

So it is with the West in Afghanistan.

Whether or not it was right for George W. Bush and his coalition – including Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia – to go into Afghanistan to remove an al-Qaeda haven in the dark shadow of 9/11 is not the issue for debate this week.

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