What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan achieve? Ruination
What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan achieve? Ruination Simon Jenkins © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA The longest, most pointless and unsuccessful war that Britain has fought in the past 70 years – its intervention in Afghanistan – is to end in September. I doubt anyone will notice. Nations celebrate victories, not defeats. Twenty years ago the United States decided to relieve its 9/11 agony not just by blasting Osama bin Laden’s base in the Afghan mountains, but by toppling the entire Afghan regime. This was despite y...
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