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Jul 10, 2021
Kabul – Afghan Air Force Maj. Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan’s sprawling capital.
Instead of being greeted by a prospective buyer at his realtor’s office earlier this year, the 41-year-old pilot was confronted by a gunman who walked inside and, without a word, fatally shot the real estate agent in the mouth.
Zamaray reached for his sidearm but the gunman shot him in the head. The father of seven collapsed dead on his 14-year-old son, who had tagged along. The boy was spared, but barely speaks anymore, his family says.
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I’ve never seen a statement like this from a president before. Maybe Nixon said something similar in ordering withdrawal from Vietnam but I’m unfamiliar with it, if so. It’s a moment of shocking honesty, not quite an admission of defeat but an admission that victory is unachievable.
It’s strange to feel shocked by the head of state acknowledging something that everyone’s understood for many years, but that’s government for you. Rarely are truths this hard delivered forthrightly.
Not every moment today was as honest, as we’ll see below.
President Biden: I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. The United States cannot afford to remain tethered to policies created in response to the world as it was 20 years ago. pic.twitter.com/tWjqMsiWHw