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In defence of Harry’s Taliban comments

11 January 2023

6:00 PM

11 January 2023

6:00 PM

Let’s just simmer down about Prince Harry, at least when it comes to his comments about the Taliban. In his memoir Spare, released this week, the Prince writes that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan and thought of ‘Taliban fighters not as people but as chess pieces.’

This wasn’t the best choice of words.

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