BBCNEWS Context January 11, 2022 21:20:00
Have not been since august. our middle east correspondent has returned to afghanistan and visited a hospital in the capital, kabul. ten years ago, i lived next door to this hospital. it was a time of a great surge of men, material and billions of dollars into afghanistan. western diplomats would say, don't try and build perfection here, they were not trying to create switzerland. who knows what they were trying to create, but it wasn't theirs. it wasn't a country where half the people, more than half the people are going hungry and babies like this one are near starvation. a regular feature of...