The fall of Kabul, with John Simpson
World Review from the New Statesman
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The Impossible Task of Building Trust in Afghanistan
There's a great sense that this opportunity to build the trust and the structures you would need to sustain the Afghanistan that arose from 2001 was never really put in place. Do you think it's ultimately their fault or were they faced with an impossible task? Rory Stewart: I don't think it was their fault, I think it's thoroughly, thoroughly the fault of the United States.
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