BBCNEWS BBC News August 29, 2021 13:25:00
Orany were foreign troops in afghanistan, or any other country, it is the perfect recruiting tool for any sort of insurgency. it was, you know, the kind of recruiting tool you could not pay money for. so, inevitably when we left there was going to be this uprising. i don't think we realise that at the time. we thought maybe we could persuade enough people that we were a force for good. but unfortunately thatjust was not the case. i think cultures were so vastly different. we were maybe trying to achieve something that wasn't achievable. we were trying to put our own interpretations of peace an...